Here is a complete guide to install Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.1 (9B18) on your PC, in just one step that is as easy as it could possibly get. Just pop in the DVD and you are good to go, running Leopard in no time, with all the 300+ features at your fingertips.

I am writing this guide for a novice user, who doesn’t know much about the various commands that went into my previous article. This is a one step process that almost anybody in this world would be able to follow.

Here are the basic requirements for you to proceed with the installation of Leopard :

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I’m an abseloute newbie and am wondering if this will work on my system (Dell D830 laptop) especially cause we use LanDesk at school for software distribution and I am using the Wave security suite for the fingerprint reader.
But I guess I’ll find out

is it original leopard or theme or demo version and will i be able to download softwares from apple.com and how can i change internet broadband changes please tell? and i also want to tell u that u have worked gr8 u r a genius ?

Amit- I think maybe you should get your general computing skills to a higher bar before trying something that is a little tricky, as this may prove to be. Any time you install a non-native OS you will probably be swimming in troubled waters.
Also, the best way to get help is to sit, breathe, and ponder your question before posting so it comes out in a legible manner. Thank you.

Karthik- Thanks for the guide, Im happy with ubuntu atm, but this is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while. Any chance we can get an article on extended compatibility? (i.e. battery usage, quirks, stability, etc)

Hey Karthik, jus wanna say a huge huge well done to you and your team for creating such a wicked hack! am in process of downloading it now, has it been tested on SSE2 processors yet? or is it strictly for SSE3 only right now? cheers mate,

One question, do you have any idea whether or not my 8800GT 512mb video card will be supported under Leopard? I have serached but found no confirmation as of yet, just curious whether its worth installing it or not.

This is very cool. Just bought a macbook for my wife and I was wondering about doing the same thing on a spare pc I have. One question, will the patch/hack work if I was to try the OS X dvd that came with the macbook? I’m downloading the torrent now and it has 6 hours to go 175 kb/s.

I downloaded the file, installed it on a Sony VGN-N365E laptop with core duo processor. I booted from cd, It showed dos errors for about 30 minutes then, started up OSX install. i had to reformat a partition on my HD for OSX extended journaled, The install completed and Leopard is running great, Wifi works, and its even faster than my Macbook 13 nch with the same processor. However, there is no sound and i MUST boot from the disc to get to the operating system. Afterwards i can eject the disc and use the mac as usual. The only other, small glitch i noticed was the tap to click on the touchpad not available and the battery bar doesnt exist. Besides that, great job on this OS!!!

Hey guys, thanks again for this great hack. With the torrent, thank you Yellow Snow, and others seeding, but we need more seeds. Right now we have 0/33 seeds on, (3 in swarm). And 4900 leechers -.- Everyone is stuck at 89%, if a seed could come on and get some of us to 100% we could get atleast another 15 seeders from my peer list. The download is going pretty good, I’m getting around 600kB/s 40% done, and I’ll full force seed once I got it downloaded.

if you don’t mind me asking. What are rate are you uploading to the community? maybe you could do a dedicated upload tonight. Only upload this torrent and use your full upload bandwidth. A good nights upload will for sure take care of the seed shortage. many will only need an hour or two to get 100% of this torrent.

If my file would get any farther than 89.9% I would be glad to continue seeding the file after it was finished. *sigh* I’m currently uploading at 50kBps which is a hell of alot more than I’m able to download which usually sits anywhere between 0.1 to 0.5kBps. If I ever get to 100% I’ll increase my upload speed. In the meantime I obviously need to download the rest of the file from somewhere so — You know who you are. If your file is at 100% that dosent mean stop the file and close the window. It helps if you seed for a while after your downoad has completed.

1. what was my question as well. Can this be installed on a system
running Windows already as a dual boot system?
2. Is its reversible? Thank you for reading thisIs its reversible?
3. will i be able to install xp again on my pc?

Someone please seed the torrent. There are hundreds of us sitting at 97.1% and we can’t progress with the download.

I intend to install on a p4 3.20 GHz SL7E5, can anyone tell me if the PC-EFI is going to work for me?I’m guessing it won’t but I’m not sure what implications that will have on my installation?

How much RAM can Leopard address and use? This used Intel D865GBF board can go to 4 Gig I believe, shoud I load it up? I never had more than 3 Gig in it because of 32 bit Windows inability to use more than 3.5.

Downloaded the torrent, burned the DVD, and restarted several times, only to be greeted by a box telling me I need to restart my computer. Googled it, and apparently it’s a Kernel Panic, which doesn’t help me much.

Is anyone else having this problem, or does anyone know how to fix it?

Ok, I just checked the files progress. I’m at 100% and I’ll continue to seed for a while. My maximum upload is set to unlimited and I plan to keep it that way for a little while since its running on my server. I hope this helps, enjoy!

Finished downloading it, First batch who reached 100%.. Still uploading, hope it works for my Asus Z96js Laptop.. Many Thanks to Eskurza, Upchuck and the guy who posted its instructions here.. Happy Holidays!

Next step – if anyone else has problem with blank screen and cursor blinking – boot install disk, press f8 (in beginning, when asked) and type in boot parameters: “rd=disk0s1″ (without quotes).. this will boot you system using installation disc.

the file after unzip is 2,44 GB when i burn it using nero 7 it shows that the dvd is only 542 KB used, when i boot from the dvd it says loading darwing and then just reboots again into windows, help any one???

Downloaded it, burned, seems to be the real thing. On VirtualPC, I get to the “apple logo” screen – then it crashes. On Vmvare Worskation 5, I get an error message. Any ideas? Maybe that’s because I am trying on an AMD box. I have access to a P4 and a Core, but only in a few days… ;-(

Hey guys.
Just tried to install this. But when i get the screen where i have to choose with partition to install it too, there are no partitions, or drives if u wish, shown. Do many more people have this problem, anyone have a solution? Please let me know

FYI!!! –heads up, there is a black hat that tried to get into my server…. Had to kill the seed, Keep your eyes open, they are probably using IP addresses out of their torrent client. I may consider seeding again later but for now keep your eyes open! Who ever it was was trying to do some serious damage to my system.

Torrent was downloaded as a .Zip and extracted with no errors and then burned to disk with Nero 7.2.3.2. On the first boot at would make it to the APPLE splash page…wait about 3 minutes and then reboot…Any ideas?? Thanks.

As a side note the disk has a total of 9 files on it and the size is below.

AUDIOSONIC: I had the same problem, in that screen goto Utility: disk utility and create a new partition, i ended up deleting my old one to create a new one. If this doesn’t help, ill try to walk you through it..

I downloaded, seeded for a while, and will some more. Then I successfully burned CD, although at high (18X) speed. I was able to boot, got to the load screen, but when I followed the directions and started to erase a partition, it hiccuped–it wasn’t able to load the partition, because the format was wrong. This was an old linux installation I don’t use anymore, I think it’s in reiserfs, but maybe ext3. Anyway, I’m going to use GParted to reformat the drive, and then I will proceed with the installation.

thanks for the tip “rd=disk0s1″… finally got my laptop to boot.. unfortunately i’ve wiped out all other os except this one.. BTW, does anybody know how to make this one into a dual boot? i wish to have vista in another partition.. Also, my screen resolution is set to 1024×768, but my laptop is 1200×800. Hope someone can help me.. ATi X1600 vcard..

Why isnt it starting up? Ive burnt it to the dvd fine and done a fresh install on a 40 Gb hard drive. It boots up but theres nothing showing up. I mounted the drive in Kubuntu and YES the files seem to be there so while isnt it booting?

Hey, I seem to have some problems…
My computer boots to the Darwin loader, and I press enter to start the insallation process. Darwin loads, then the apple screen pops up for a fraction of a second, then my computer reboots. I have tried it with XP installed, without XP installed, and even with a different HDD. Here’s my specs for you to see.

I have installed iATKOS though I am unsure if I’ve selected the right configuration settings. I’ve tried several configurations, none seem to boot fully. The closest I can get is booting off the hard disk (but only if the leopard disc is in the CD tray), loading most of Leopard, and coming to a screen that states I must restart my machine. Without the disc in the tray, Bios checks for CD boot, drops down one line, and sits with a blinking cursor indefinately.

thanks.. i solved it last night. problem was that i couldnt control mouse pointer to access menus. it just started working one time. pretty random actually.

i got this release intalled ok but it would not boot up. it would simply boot into the installer every time regardless how i booted (letting it time out. hitting any key, or F8 option. ive now successfully installed uphuck 10.4.9 release.

problem is now finding drivers for my acer aspire 5710 as i have no sound, no LAN, no wireless.

I left it on overnight! If anyone knows what I���ve done wrong, I���d be VERY grateful. For the recored, this is the first thing that comes up. It asks you before if you want to install Mac OS X, you press Enter to agree. Then it goes to this screen, and in my case, fails to do anything else.

Hi, i was wondering if you know of a 1 step process to install tiger. I dont want to mess around with leopard till it gets better, stability wise, and i need it to work on an amd. So e-mail me with info, or comment here.
Thanks!

Please someone seed the file just for an hour! I’ve downloaded 99,8%, but there is no seeder for the rest 0,2%. Once I download it, I will continue seeding the torrent, but first I need this 0,2%! Thanks!

just go to isohunt.com and the first torrent went very well to me. I downloaded it in about 2 hours

now.. i’m having problems instaling it!
when the white window with the aplle shows.. i ear some noise from the DVD.. and then it stops, and the computer restarts after a litle while!
and when i press F8 when it ask me to, i write “rd=disk0s1″ and a window appears telling me to press restart button or power button for a while, because it need to restart.
i tried to write “-v” when i press F8 and a lot of lines with things written appears, and then the last one is:
“ERROR: Firewire – unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure”
and then.. it stays there for about 15seconds and then restarts again!

does anyone have the same problem? or have any idea of what am i doing wrong?
need some help, plz

for those having trouble downloading search for it on BTJunkie not MiniNova – the one on MiniNOva doesn’t seem to have any completed copies while the BTJunkie one should come down in under three hours (at least thats what it did for me)

ok i have the mac osx installed…then on the startup screen it asks to transfer files… and i say no thank you.. then it takes a little while to load then just goes back to the welcome screen idk what to do or how to fix this

Well I’m trying to install as well, been trying a few diffferent set ups, like kalaway, and brazil patch. So i see a LOT of people posting problems and nobody saying they got this working, this a bunk walk-through? i dont wanna be a jerk but i’m seeing a lot of common problems with no solutions which leads me to belive the authors don’t really care for it. well ill keep trying to figure this out for a bit and post results.

not sure if your having the keyboard problem at the darwin boot process, but i had the same problem, got the darwin to run by using the good old copy and paste. so i’m going through installation right now and crossing my fingers

i looked at the info in the advanced options and it said something about security and reverting to something. my computer is completely wiped and im trying to install
i really need help!
it seems lots of people have been having the same problems

I also tried loading it from grub menu (linux loader) and it did get past startup screen (apple with round loader), then it shows blue screen like background and thats it..

but guys.. i tried using it with cd boot method i described and enjoyed it for ~15 minutes.. you know what? – i got this feeling like i have to have macbook with that cute apple on cover by itself and put on ubuntu linux.. because my ubuntu is more handy and it has more features.. i like the way i can customize it and it has more eye candy..

oh well so much for it, you guys go on and try, i`ve made my decision.. actually i just need that cute looking laptop not os.. linux is far more good already.. later it will be even better

Karthik Kastury I know you are busy with your exams an all..
But a lot of people are having problems with this release and it would be right if you could, as well as anyone else who has successfully managed to install this OSX, to take a minute and explain to others how to BURN and INSTALL it properly.. Thanx in advance!
And yes I am waiting for your guide on how to Multi-Boot this release.
Merry Christmas!

I have followed the directions several times now to instill Leopard on my pc, however every time i turn my comp on, go to BIOS to start my computer from my cd-rom drive, it seems to work for a few seconds and then windows starts, I have no idea why it is doing this, is there a reason? a solution? I apologize if the answer is mundane, id just really like to get leopard working.

Ok, after 36 hrs of repartitioning/erase/reinstalling…This is what I did

To people who is getting the darwin start but keep rebooting problem…
iAtkos EFI does not support Pentium D proceesor on my case, so after I reinstall Leo without EFI but with speedstep…it is working now.

I have Noticed that leopard is 64 bit. That can be part of the problem since alot of older processeors are not 64 bit capable. Have download via mininova. burned at 5,540kbs using magic iso. Also This Is A laptop I am Using.

When I just let it boot on its own it gets to apple screen then reboots.
When I use advanced options and type -v it loads hfs a few times then restarts. Idk what the problem is. if anyone can help thanxs. I will be buying a macbook soon anyways but whant to c if it worth the money

Ok I downloaded vmware and tried installing it through there. whell this is what it states. *** Virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset) ***
The virtual machine just suffered a stack fault in kernel mode. On a real computer, this would amount to a reset of the processor. It can be caused by an incorrect configuration of the virtual machine, a bug in the operating system, or a problem in the VMware Workstation software. Press OK to reboot virtual machine or Cancel to shut it down.

Also This Popped Up:System Config File ‘/com.apple.boot.plist’ not found

NAJLAA you are not alone i have the same problem with the iatkos dvd so i grabbed the tiger version (i think it is the uphuck release and it booted the installer and installed but then the os could not boot from the hard drive it was stuck on the blank screen.

hopefully someone will patch and build a full live dvd that will run on any pc by using generic code that is not cpu specific (no need for builds for amd,pentium,celeron,etc.)

Most of the hanged proccess issues have been resolved with iATKOS_v1.0ir2, at the moment there is no ISO image created, but there is a patch for the 1.0i version.

Note, most of the torrents presented on this thread, do not comply with the original md5 tracker of the Patched DVD. I cannot verify the validity of the tors presented herein, hence, if there is anyone using them, leave your comments here please.
intend to do the same in a couple of hours, patching and installing the iATKOS on a Nocola dual Xeon, under a Precision 470 Dell workstation.
Merry Xmas.

I installed leopard, it works beautifully, however, leopard does not seem to recognize my wireless, it says “no airport card installed”, nor does it recognize the Ethernet when it is plugged in, does anyone have the same problem? is there a solution?

to add onto my last post, it seems that although leopard is working, the operating system does not recognize any of my hardware, usb drives internet etc… only my cd rom drive. is there a reason why this could be happening? please inform me of a solution.
thanks

Just installed Leopard over my existing dual-boot Vista/OSX 10.4.9 system, leopard installed fine, but when I come to register, I select location and keyboard, but then it won’t let me get past the “time machine” backup/restore screen. In the old install I could quit the registration process by pressing Alt+Q (aka Apple+Q) but this one refuses (shut down or continue). Any ideas? I just press continue without restoring and it dumps me back to the first screen again (pick location). Cheers guys.

For anyone trying to download this iso, don’t use the mininova torrent all of the downloads stick at 99.81%. Use the isohunt torrent, it’s got plenty of seeders at 100%. This is the third try at downloading this, and had I known this before, it would have saved me a ton of waiting.

I had successfully downloaded the iATKOS version of Leopard and the version that uses the three step process with the patch. In both cases I wind up with a blinking cursor on a black screen and it never boots.
I tried all of the suggested fixes which included using the GParted Live CD to set the boot flag and the other ideas which included using the terminal mode on the install DVD iso and entering the Unix commands to make the partition active. I was attempting this install on an attached USB drive.All to no avail. While I would have liked to have gotten this OS working I began to wonder why. Probably for the thrill of getting something for nothing that otherwise cost upwards of $125 and for the joy of hacking.
But to be practical I know a better way to achieve the security of a Unix (LInux) environment without all of the hassles this Leopard install has caused me (Over 48 hours of trial and errors). I downloaded the latest version of PCLinux and had it working in less than 1 hour !
Sound, ethernet , video, internet, and the security of Linux.
Hats off to anyone who can get this hacked version of Leopard to work
on an intel PC. But PCLinux works just fine on any system that has
come out in the last 5 years or so.

Anyone see what I see? First posts were full of shear excitement! You poor depraved windows users were finally going to get Leopard. The next series of posts were impatient pirates eagerly waiting for this luscious OS. And now, the posts are all distress calls. . .pleading for help. “Install Leopard on your PC in JUST ONE STEP.” For me it was one easy step. I bought the leopard disc put it in my Macbook and voila, I installed Leopard. Apparently you all want what Apple has to offer. Just man up and get one, you won’t be dissatisfied.

er…i have the file, and it is loaded to a DVD, but when i look at the files, the total size is less than 1MB!? it boots fine, but during the instalation, it kinda gets screwed up…am i supposed to burn the .iso with powerIso or something at low speeds?

@ TOM
as far as i understood this topic you only can boot leopard when its the only os installed (so you would have to remove windows).
I have 2 HDDs in my notebook so i tryed it with only one of them and it worked, but at the registration my keyboard didn’t work so i couldn’t continue.
I think we all shoud wait for a “better”, newer release which is more simple to install and works better.

I downloaded the file in 7 hrs. Got the torrent from mininova and used Azeurus. Do you think this will work on a 3.0 P4? 2 gb Ram…PC3200, PNY GeForce 6800 Ultra… or too outdated you think? I may have to back up my primary rig and try it on there… Let me know what you think…

If Apple had of brought out leopard ages ago then maybe we would have got a mac. I say maybe too because the price of them is outrageous.
Have a look at the upgrade price of the macbook pro to get the ram upgraded from 2gig to 4gig. $1000. A freekin $1000. Thats an entire laptop brand new from the shop.
Maybe if the Macs weren’t so friggen expensive more people would buy them.

Hey queppa,
Macs are expen$sive, especially ram. But that is because Apple doesn’t want to be i the ram game. I recently upgraded the ram in my macbook (from 1g to 2 g). If I would have gone through Apple it would have set me back $300. I went with crucial ram and it was only $55. Not to be cliche: you get what you pay for. A $400 laptop will have the performance and longevity of a $400 laptop. . .

In response to: “If Apple had of brought out leopard ages ago then maybe we would have got a mac.”
It is not like Apple to rush getting things out because of a predetermined release date. Dropping a new OS is a big deal, requiring a lot of TLC. When things are rushed we end up with buggy systems–I will refrain from metioning any specific OS, but I think it’s pretty obvious which rushed buggy OS I am referring too. One gig just to run the OS, come on Bill you can do better than that.

Re: “Maybe if the Macs weren���t so friggen expensive more people would buy them.”

Macs are not really all that expensive, I mean, of course you can get some PC’s for a lot cheaper, but you do get what you pay for, and Mac hardware is pure genius Take the new iMac for example… ever try to open one? no screws… ever notice how the glass screen is black around the edges? That is because it is magnetized, so suction cups pull the glass off. GENIUS! They are all amazing. With that being said, prices have dropped, a macbook $1,000, a new imac for $1,000. And these are nice powerful core2duo machines.

As far as the memory comment, YES… Apple branded memory, which is usually hynix or kingston with an apple sticker is very expensive. However…. so is memory from Dell, or HP, HP kills Mac in the memory price. So go buy non-apple branded memory. it works fine, back when we had powerpcs, yes, some brands were flaky, but not now.

In the end, the thing is that Macs last a LONG time. You don’t need a new computer ever few years to run stuff, that concept only applies to Microsoft. When it comes to mac & Linux, a hardware upgrade is a luxury, not a requirement. We still have people using Blue & Whites (but they are very slow). Either way, a real mac is well worth the cost.

I HAVE A PROBLEM DURING INSTALATION- WHEN I FINISH OF INSTALL LEOPARD IATKOS, AND RESTART THE WINDOW SHOW ME “WELCOME ..AND CONFIGURATION, COUNTRY, KEYBORD, AND AFTER OPTION FOR TRANSFER FILE AND THEN I GIVE CONTINUE BUT THE PROCESS START AGAIN, DONT LETME FOLLOW OR CANCEL THIS PROCESS, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? PLEASE ANY CAN HELPE ME, MI MSN NOGALES8@MSN.COM, THANKS

OK I found it will support my system config. Now I’ve only had time for 1 attempt, but last night I got 3/4 through installation when my system restarted…I don’t know if it was supposed to do that…I’ll give it another shot when I get home from work… If anyone knows if it has to restart part way through please let me know THANKS!

I have a problem Leopard installs great everything works but needs the DVD to boot past the blinking cursor. If I leave the disk in when it gets to the blinking cursor it counts down then Leopard boots right up. I used the boot loader but to no avail it still wont boot. Any ideas?

Stephen I believe I have the same issue… not a terrible one because I can use the OS but I would like to not be dependent upon the DVD image… This question should be a top priority to receive and answer…
Thanks

The torrent download for iATKOS v1.0i was going to take me about 3 days. I am not going to beg people to seed. I am a big fan of usenet. If you have a news account you can find the .rars for iATKOS v1.0i in alt.binaries.cd.image

For those of you as impatient as me, it took 45 minutes to download the approx 2 GB of .rars

I’ve the same problem as Audiosonic; iAtkos installation runs fine but it doensn’t find any destination to install on. I’ve tried to “first aid” and erase the partition but then i can’t mount the partition.
Also used Gparted to set the boot flags. Does anyone has a solution?

Audiosonic you seem to have solved the problem, but it isn’t clear to me how you managed it. Can you tell me more?

The sound didn’t worked under a hacked 10.4.8 installation. So I hope it works under 10.5. Haven’t tested that yet.

I don’t know the exactly model number for the Celeron processor. But the computer was bought in Jan ’05.

I hate that the BIOS requires the PS/2 keyboard. I cannot use an USB keyboard in the BIOS. So I must have 2 keyboards connected. The Dell PS/2 keyboard and the Apple USB keyboard. I love the Apple keyboard with CTRL, ALT and CMD keys.

Another “trouble” is that I cannot change the graphics in System Prefs. I can only use 1024×768 with millions of colors. I cannot switch to lower or higher.

You could suffer through 5 days of downloading (because no one seeds). Then spend 5 hours on configurations so that you can just get Leopard on your PC, and then make some sacrifices in terms of the Leopard functionality (no wireless?).

OR… you can just get a MAC! The problem is still that Apple designs its software around its hardware and vice versa. That’s why the wireless only detects airport. It’s just that simple, Apple software is made for Apple computers. Now, if you want to argue tying and bundling violations, contact the DOJ and FTC.

Mac minis start at $ 600, they are FAR superior to any DELL or HP for that price. Mac books are $ 1000, take the money that you would have spent on “optimization services” at Geek Squad and spend it on a Mac.

However, if you do want an alternative experience, one is that is free of hassles and confines of Windows, do what real gangstas do, get Ubuntu (fast and free!). Ubuntu Gutsy is awesome!

Before you say Linux is for geeks, I have many friends who doesn’t know their way around Windows use Ubuntu. It’s become very user friendly.

Hello friend, i have a leopard on a pc intel running, and my chip wifi the “intel�� PRO/Wireless 3945ABG ” dont run , and i like run my chips, there is any driver for leopard or macos?, thanks for all!!!:)

I downloaded iATKOS v1.0i OSx86 Leopard 10.5.1 + EFI+ Boot Loader in Mac on minova and burn it. When I try to boot it, the Apple icon appears and it just keep loading. Can anyone tell why it doesn’t work on my computer?

I tried this for the best of a day, i managed to install the O/S on my 160gb IDE drive no probs at all, BUT!, it wouldnt boot into the o/s after a restart message “Error loading Operating System”, i installed the patches that were on the dvd installation disc, and the EFI

tried numerous combo’s and the GParted Live CD method, and still nothing..

Ubuntu was nice I just couldnt connect to the internet without going into the terminal and such. I never did get it to connect through ethernet let alone my wireless card (which was not detected by unbuntu) Too confusing for me since I’ve got no linux experience

hey guys ….i’m havin a bit of trouble…have inserted the dvd..it reaches the apple logo screen but then nothin happens and the system becomes eerily quiet….is it just normal and should i wait for some time for any progress????

I tried twice now after downloading the iso and burning it to a dvd. All I get when I try to install it, is a silver screen with the apple logo and the the loading icon spinning. After a minute or so, I get that cirle with a line through it and nothing else happens. Is there something I did wrong?

The reason your install doesn’t work is because you’re videocard, processor, etc is NOT supported by Apple! Apple is not Microsoft! Look, the reason Apple has a reputation for being more stable than Windows is because Apple supports only a LIMITED amount of hardware. That is, the native hardware you buy when you buy an Apple computer! So you can NOT install OS X on just any random PC!! Your PC’s hardware has to be compatible with what Apple supports natively, or you’ll have to track down the drivers you need and install them yourself. Period.

I hate being rude but pretty much all you morons don’t seem to know the first thing about computers so why bother installing this even though its simple as possible. Really I hate coming across things like this and then scrolling down to see all the completely stupid comments people leave even though its funny as hell still come on people get your head out of your fucking ass and READ

I don’t mind doing the research and doing the leg work to get this working. Many times, someone has the knowledge and experience to quickly get around some of the generic problems and can help you get things working in a short period of time. I know it wouldn’t be as much fun as degrading or insulting people, but if the solution to their problem is that they have to research and find drivers, why not just provide a website URL that they can go to – to research their answers.

I started out loading Slackware on my PCs years ago and found documentation in the package and websites that helped me work through my driver/configuration problems. Trying to load the MAC OS is slightly different where it doesn’t seem to have much documentation to research right now. I understand that my laptop may not even be able to handle the instruction set needed to run the MAC OS. I was told there is a utility you can run to check this and am currently trying to find it.

If you’re in a position where you may know where to find the information, but don’t know the exact resolution, please just be kind and direct us in the right direction so we can find the answers on our own. And yes, some may be new to the level of computing you need to understand to get devices to work with Linux or even the MAC OS, but they need to start somewhere.

I’ve been concentrating on college course while working a full time job these past six years and haven’t had time to stay up on my skills with Linux and admit I’m a bit rusty. All I ask is to just point me in the right direction so I can find how to get the drivers (or even build them) and pull them into the iso image.

Hi i have a pc and wish to install leopard onto it i love leopard. Well the torrent says “Torrent not found on this tracker – hash = d010626710d843010c89517b8b682079f7776375″
and by the way there were three torrents and all of them don’t work please help.

I’m new to this however I’m quite familiar with computers. I get the DVD to boot up and begin the install and get to the screen where it tells me to select a drive but nothing is there. Is this because my drive still has a copy of VISTA and I need a clean formated drive?

I also tried doing the install in VMWARE. It keeps crashing asking me to reset. I’m not sure why, I get to the apple logo and thats it.

This is a 64 bit version of Leopard, so it won’t install in vmware as a guest because i’m running vmware on a 32 bit vista host…i need a scsi adapter to make this 64 bit version work, any suggestions of how to get a scsi adapter for this os…thank you
i get this message after configering vmware
“The buslogic SCSI adapter is not supported for 64-bit guests in this release. Please consult the documentation for the appropriate type of SCSI adapter to use with 64-bit guests.
Failed to configure virtual device scsi0.”

DJLEOGNDRA
I feel how hard it sounds. If you have stuff you can sell or work and save up it wont take long. I would suggest a mac mini or macbook i have one sold alot of old thing and had it i a month and i’m pore. I love this macbook.

Well i am still trying to install this on a old PC it is for a pore family member. I am using my macbook to do the creating.

I also have leopard and apple care saved up i love leopard spaces is great.

Hello, i get through the BIOS, and it says darwin blah something looking like it is installing, but then it reboots( i have XP pro and vista dual booting aleady, do i just need another partition or something?

I partitioned my DELL XPS M1710 hard drive and reformatted the partition using the Disk Utility off the boot DVD. It picked up the drive and I started to install. It checked the DVD and it began the install. About 25mins into the install my laptop rebooted (the blue bar didn’t complete loading). It then told me there was no OS. It still showed that Vista was on my C Drive and that something was on my New drive. I couldn’t get my laptop to boot. I had to reformat and reinstall Vista.

Hi, I have download the iATKOS.iso file and try to boot it from the system but nothing happen as if the system cannot boot it up. Is there any step or method that I have miss out or need to boot the system using teh ISO file. Please help and advice. Thanks

Downloaded, extracted, and tried to install on a VMWare 6 machine on a dell inspiron 1520, with 1024 set aside for the virtual machine. I get this error after “pressing any key” – “Virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset)”

I am stuck in BIOS the darwin loads(im not to firmiliar with macintosh terms for that..kernal?) But automatically reboots. I am currently running vista ultimate 32bit, and XP 32bit one two seperate partitions. I added a 58GB partition off the Vista one called it mac os x, but it is ntsf? format whatever the windows format default is. AND cannot be formatted in the mac. My email is chimpebman@yahoo.com please email me with help or post on here(post on here better)
-joe

I have the same problem as audiosonic … When i arrive to the place where it says where you want to download it my HDD doesn’t show and when i go to disk utilities I can’t mount it it says Error try something first…..

Hi all! First a big thank you to all you clever people out there for helping to get Mac OS X to work on a PC.

However, I cannot get it to work, it just wouldn’t boot.

I am using a Thinkpad T60 (Centrino), Core2Duo 2.2 GHZ, ATI X1600.

Here’s what I did: I replaced the internal HDD with a blank one. I used the Mac OS X DiskUtil to erase and format the HDD. Strangely, I always got GUID map type at first whenever trying to create a single partition. In fact, I would actually end up with two partition, the first very tiny (200MB) and invisible, only visible in the GParted LiveCD, the second being the actually desired Macintosh HD. I instead had to create two partitions first to actually be able to select MBR map type instead of GUID type. Then I erased the whole HDD again to create one partition (HFS+, journaled) only, but MBR map type setting would luckily persist. Gnome would also then show a single partition formatted with HFS+.

Now I installed the Darwin boot loader, installed Mac OS X, but afterwards and further on all I got is a blinking cursor after system restart. I used the GParted LiveCD to set the boot flag, but it wouldn’t help. I tried a couple of settings and combinations and so forth, but still no success. I’ve read all the instructions again and again, but I ran out of ideas.

Thanks for the tips on installing leopard on my pc, however i was wanting to run it on top of my xp machine, as a visualisation. is it possible to do this, and if so what visualisation software do i need to install first in order to do this?

I seem to be getting stuck at the set up page where it asks you if you want to transfer info from your old mac!!…can’t seem to bypass that screen…keeps looping the welcome screen…..any ideas? running an intel core 2 duo with hp with interegrated video card.

I am stuck in BIOS the darwin loads(im not to firmiliar with macintosh terms for that..kernal?) But automatically reboots. I am currently running vista ultimate 32bit, and XP 32bit one two seperate partitions. I added a 58GB partition off the Vista one called it mac os x, but it is ntsf? format whatever the windows format default is. AND cannot be formatted in the mac. My email is chimpebman@yahoo.com please email me with help or post on here(post on here better)
-joe
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I had a weird problem with both versions of iATKOS. v1.0 wouldnt boot at all, kept rebooting at the Darwin screen whereas v1.0r2 booted into the installer but my input devices woulnt work (usb or ps2). I couldnt continue with the install. Horribly frustrating experience.

SOLUTION: Popped in the r2 dvd, as soon as it got to the white screen with the apple logo, I ejected ther disc and inserted the 1.0 disc (found out later that the kernels didnt match but the issue was resolved). PS2 input devices worked now and I managed to complete the install.

When I try to boot off this, it pops up with the darwin bootloader, then I hit enter and the little slash-hyphen-straight line-slash progress spinning thingy goes for a bit, then disappears and my computer restarts. I’ve tried with -v and -vanilla switches, -v shows that it loads the kext files and it says “starting darwin/x86″ and POOF computer restarts. I’m using an intel core 2 duo E6550 with SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3 (no idea what that is) as well as EM64T and it still doesn’t work. I tried using a flat disk but it does the exact same thing. Help, anyone?

I installed this version of OSX86 to the first partition of my third hard drive multiple times without being able to actually boot into the operating system. I finally figured out how to get it to boot and I thought I’d share my experience here.

My system was previously a dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with grub bootloader. The issue was when I installed OSX it killed grub, but didn’t overwrite it. I tried installing the Darwin booloader to all three hard drives multiple times but it never seemed to actually write to the MBR.

Since I couldn’t boot into any OS now I decided to try to fix grub. I did this by booting off the Ubuntu live cd and running the following commands in a terminal:
sudo grub
root (hd2,2)
setup (hd2)

The commands above overwrote the MBR with grub and made my system bootable again. So once in Ubuntu I decided to see if I could get grub to load OSX. Also from a terminal I did:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and added the following lines to the bottom:

title OSX86
root (hd2,0)
chainloader +1

This also, surprisingly enough, was able to boot Darwin with PC-EFI enabled. Hopefully this helps any of the people with multiboot options or issues booting.

The 2.09Gb image is ok and have burn it to dvd. Have followed instruction on Darwin Boot screen but when reboot, it says “error loading os”. From the comments above, I can see that this matter persist. Any clue what may be going wrong with the MBR?

NOTE:
The items marked with * are components that I’m willing to sacrifice (aka “sell on eBay”) if Leopard has a problem with them.

The items marked with ** are components that I’m pretty sure are irrelevant in terms of Leopard compatibility.

Anyway, let me know what you think. If I do this, I’m considering buying a removable SATA hard drive enclosure and another 500GB drive. That way I can leave my current system alone (i.e. take out the whole hard drive) while I mess around with this.

HELP
i booted from the cd it was all good till i got a message saying Select the destination for your os or something like that. it stays there forever, i guess it shud show the hard drives or somethingbut it doesnt show anything! its stucked plz helpp!

One more question before I go to bed.
Can anybody tell me why all of the actual non-hacked Leopard DVD’s out there (i.e. isohunt) are over 6GB while the OSx86 one is only around 2.09 to 2.44 GB? That seems weird to me. Am I missing something?

The problem was that the iATKOS installation was NOT making the Master Boot Record a bootable partition as indicated in the “One Step Procedures” above. You should know that not everything is one step. Would be nice, but… we are working with a hack here.

I think I figured out why the OSx86 hack version is so much smaller than the Mac-only Leopard ISOs. I think it’s because the Mac-only versions have to support non-Intel Macs as well. The OSx86 version can obviously be much smaller. I’m pretty sure that is the reason anyhow.

Looking forward to some feedback to my MOUNTAIN of posts. Sorry guys, but I never think up all of my questions at once and, if I don’t post them when I think of them, I will forget.

I’m affraid that all torrents available at present are a fake.
I’ve dowloaded the file for 3 times from different trackers and after checking the md5 and burning the image to a blank DVD (at slow speed) I get a ridiculous 542KB size DVD, which obviously do almost nothing. It starts, loads some init files and then reboots over and over.
Help accepted. Thanks in advance

I’m not sure if this is still the case, but Apple has a reputation for making their operating systems fairly backwards compatible and able to run on quite a range of hardware (further back than Windows could at least). For instance, I’m pretty sure that OSX Tiger runs on non-Intel Macs as well as Intel Macs. So, basically, if a person went into an Apple store last year and bought OSX Tiger, he’d only need to by one disc. I think that the OSX setup application detects which CPU-type you have and then installs the correct code. If that still holds true with OSX Leopard, then that would account for why the OSx86 hack ISO’s are so much smaller than the Intel Mac non-hacked Leopard DVD ISO’s. All the non-Intel code has been stripped out. At least that’s my theory.

hey im running off of a pentium 4 with a gb of ram, and 2 160 gb hardrivs, but when trying to install the pc just kinda reboots on me :/ does anyone have any advice or a fix for this? of so post or e-mail it. any help is apreciated ^_^

I manage to sucessfully install Leopard on my VAIO TZ. I download the ISO, burned, did everything as said. I made the partition with Vista and installation was pretty smooth.

But now got some issues. Can’t boot without DVD in it (sometimes even boots to installation, sometimes freezes on apple screen, sometimes boots just fine!! just keep trying…). If I don’t leave the DVD in in, I got some problem as Jennifer above (HFS+ partition error).

Leopard is running good, sound is just great (even Fn+F3 key as sony volume would work as Mac volume!!), but no wifi so far. Even BT is working great, made some file transfers. Other bad thing is screen resolution – only can get 1024×768, which looks weird not being widescreen (huge black part on the right, not pretty!)

But also can’t boot into windows vista anymore, I think I lost my system. Tried to made a complete PC restore, couldn’t.

I’ll try to get recovery CDs and restore my computer, and maybe wait for a more stable version. If I can boot both Vista or XP and Leopard that would be great.

I have an Imac (intel) I bought it just after leopard was released so I have the the instalation disk of both Tiger and Leopard. Can you also install leopard with these disks or do you have to get the hacked version?

Has anyone offically downloaded the iATKOS v1.0i OSx86 Leopard 10.5.1 + EFI+ Boot Loader from Mininova. I have been try for about 3 weeks now but no success. I would like to know were i can get the files besides Mininova. Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi! I have a problem with installer. I have successfully burned the .ISO image in a single layer DVD-R. It boots when turning on computer but… installer never begins. Sometimes I get the white screen with a black message saying that I must restart computer, and sometimes I get that same white screen with the apple in the middle, but doing nothing, after 3 or 5 minutes, computers reboots and I cannot get installer work.

I have a Pentium 4 HT 2.6 GHz with 2816 MB RAM DDR 400Mhz and an ATI 9200 vivo.

Hi, first of all…great post! Then, you said you’d update when a version for Amd is released. i think it’s been released. I went to mininova and searched “iatkos v1.0i” and i got some results, two of them are called “iATKOS v1 0i_AMD_patched.iso”, of 2.44Gb.
Do you know if this is something to make leopard work on AMD, and then i’ll have to download the iso of leopard? or if this is leopard with AMD support??
I’m downloading it, but it’ll take a lot to finish…
oh, i have a AMD athlon 64 X2 dualcore 4600+ with 1gb of ram.

For Vista dual boot: there is a program (free) called TweakVI that installs onto Vista, it gives you the option to download and install EasyBCD, which allows for a variety of multi-boot options: other Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

i burned my iso dvd riht and everything ad nw i can boot th installer but it never starts im on the screen that has the apple and the spinner and then my computer will just restart and i cant ge tthe installer to start
plase reply asap
thnks

When I try to boot off this, it pops up with the darwin bootloader, then I hit enter and the little slash-hyphen-straight line-slash progress spinning thingy goes for a bit, then shows the apple for a second then disappears and my computer restarts. need help please!!!

When I try to boot off this, it pops up with the darwin bootloader, then I hit enter and the little slash-hyphen-straight line-slash progress spinning thingy goes for a bit, then shows the apple for a second then disappears and my computer restarts. need help please!!!

ok i think i figured out how to boot it from bios. but now it shows the apple and a little loading spinny thingy. is it supposed to take forever cuz it just keeps loading and loading and loading and the timer keeps going around and around. help!

if i load leopard will it work on my intel centrino 1.8 and would it still allow me to us auto cad programs basically is the mac os ran on its own separate form xp or do they work together at the same time

I have been going through the same problem as Andy (a few posts before me) and I can’t seem to be able to download this application from any bit torrent source (and I’ve tried about 6 or 7 of them). Does anyone out there know a reliable source that actually has this iATKOS v1.0i OSx86 Leopard 10.5.1 + EFI+ Boot Loader File? Please help. Thank you to anyone in advance that can help me. I look forward to your reply… PunkNugget…

I wishi could get as far as you i can get that far i can only get the boot up screen which is grey with the apple logo and im promted with an error dialog “An unrecoverable processor error has been encounted, The Virtual machine will reset”

Dont know if its because i dont have core processors or its cause im using a virtual Pc

What you doing? booting it striaght from the pc hard drive or a virtual machine?

I’m wondering how many people have successfully installed this on a laptop. I’ve got a Sony VGN-FZ290 which is just the Intel GM965 chipset and whenever I try to install Mac OSX using the iATKOS image the Apple logo will pop up and the spinning circle thing underneath will do its thing. After this it looks like it doesn’t recognize my monitor because half the screen is teal vertical lines and the other half is gray lines. I read around and some people said that you need to plug the laptop into a screen or use a dongle and I was wondering if anybody else had any input on what’s going on with the strange half blue-half gray screen and whether I can do it without a dongle or an external monitor.

This is a frustrating blog site !!! You post something and guess what !?!?! NO ONE REPLIES !!! THAT’S JUST AWESOME !!! Now that’s sarcasm at it’s best and it’s just another free service I provide. All kidding aside, I really wish someone could email me a legitimate link to a web site that I can download this bit torrent that is NOT mininova.com. What? Did someone at Apple find a way to disable not only this torrent’s website but the other’s as well. I got a feeling that’s what happened. PLEASE SOMEONE CHALLANGE ME ON THIS ONE AND TELL ME I’M WRONG !!! Then after you prove me wrong, then you can show me what web site has a workable bit torrent file that ACTUALLY WORKS… Please reply posting below to prove me wrong. Thanks…

By the way I was talking about trying to download the “iATKOS v1.0i OSx86 Leopard 10.5.1 + EFI+ Boot Loader” File. Again, someone please post this for everyone to see, so we too can have a victory story to share with others about getting this to work on our PCs as well. Thanks…

make sure the disc is in before to start your computer. when you start your computer right when you see the screen you have to press esc. then it asks me to press f1 and it goes to bios. then i had the change the boot order to CD-ROM – HDD – LAN etc. so that the computer boots the cd-rom first. then you press end and y for yes and it will ask you to press any key to start installing Darwinx87. then it should go to the apple screen with the loading wheel thing. i haven’t been able to get passed that though. the wheel just keeps going round and round. I think it is because i only have an intel centrino processor.

You asked about the version for AMD processors. Well, I’m downloadind one that i found in mininova, just search iATKOS and there are two files for AMD, just download the one with more seeds.
I’m also downloading one from rapidshare, but it’s splitted in 35 parts of 100Mb each.
If someone wants the rapidshare links, just email me.

I tend to agree about the lack of answers here but maybe there was never an intention to answer any. Whatever the case, I was able to install this OK – at least it appeared to install OK. I get the continual loop of boots if I do not boot to the CD. Gray screen with Apple for a second or two and then reboot. I am a Windows guy and I have seen this in Windows when a video driver is bad or some other driver causes a problem at boot. I just don’t know enough about Apple’s OS to try to add a driver from the install screen. Maybe there is a way to load a new driver from a terminal window. Maybe I sound ridiculous. For what it is worth, I have a Dell XPS M1210. If I go into Utilities and choose System Profiler it seems to see all of my hardware with lots of details. I would think that this thing would boot based on that but no go. BTW, I am using the 2.44GB file from minnova that said AMD patched.

ok soo im running this on a semi piece o shit Toshiba notebook and i get the partition to run up to the point were im asked to select a startup volume and after selecting hd(31,1) iAKOS v1.0i which is the only option it gives me i get to were it shows me a mac logo and then it just restarts can anyone tell me were i went wrong with this process

i was able to get the torrent with no problems. i am even seeding right now. i downloaded uTorrent first. then went to mininova. did a search on iATKOS. clicked on “v1.0i OSx86 Leopard 10.5.1 + EFI+ Boot Loader” and it popped up in uTorrent. it took a few days (gotta wait for those seeders), but i finally got the file. i will seed the file for a few days in the hopes that others can get it, too. however, since NO ONE has posted here that they’ve gotten this to work, i’m guessing there are some steps missing. if it were that simple (and it seems to be), someone would have replied and said they’d gotten it to work by now. however, i think you need to partition your hard drive first – a section for the leopard OS. also, the writer of this blog states you must have a core processor and AMD processors are not supported, yet all these idiots keep asking “will this work on my 5-year old dell?!?!”.

good luck to everyone. i have to admit, i’m too chicken to try this on my new dell with vista! i’d love to see someone have success with this though and write a more thorough how-to!

I have given up on this site but for everyone still trying to figure this out….I’v found another torrent of mac os x that supports both Intel and AMD. Here is the url if you decide to check it out.
i havnt finished downloading it but i have noticed many more users have successfully installed this version than the users on this forum. Also, here is a video showing how to dual boot this torrent and windows xp. I also will be checking back on here every now and again to reply unlike other users.

Hi, I need some help from you, and now about installing leopard. I was downloading the torrent brandon published with bittorrent, but it always says there is no enough disk space, but the file is of 4.5gb and i have 17gb free!!
Does anyone know how to solve this?

was wondering is the amd methop would love a one step guide like you have i se some thing on the net just confude about the methods so are you going make for amd i have turion amd its sse3 a hp would love you help

wish u a very good morning
i am also one of those who tried to work out the problem and finally succeeded
what all i am writing here is my personal experience and it may not be universal.

let me tell u how to do it
I am a novice user not anyways related to computers but just some logical thoughts

The Problems

1. The installation never makes the boot volume active hence the OS never loads
2. There are two boot loaders (the term may be wrong) hence u have to select one
3. Package selection should be right as its critical

The solutions

please follow these steps
1. Insert the iATKOS disc and boot from it.
2. Press any key for booting from DVD and allow darwin to run.
3. Now u have a screen where there is only one button on the right hand bottom to CLICK and continue.
4. Click and get past the screen.
5. Now wait for sometime and look for the menu bar on the top of the screen.
6. go to UTILITIES > Disk utilities
7. Let it open and create partition (if needed) and format the disk in MAC extended (journaled) format
8. Now quit the utility and again go into UTILITY > DARWIN BOOT

(NOTE: if u r installing the OS on Hard disk 1 it will be shown as disc0
in the case there are partitions the first partition will be shown as s1
Hence disc 1 with 1st partition will be shown as disk0s1
disc 2 with 1st partition will be shown as disk1s1, and so on…)

when u start darwin boot it will ask u to continue
SAY yes by typing “Y” without quotes
it will ask the disk number so give the disk number (only numerals, 1,2,3….) as per ur customization
then it will ask for partition number and give it (only numerals, 1,2,3….)
This will make prepare the installation to find the correct boot volume

.IMPORTANT IMPORTANT ………………………………………………………….
Then it asks for EFI patch at this point just answer yes.
the next step asks for installing DARWIN just say no here
(NOTE these steps are for dual core intel processor)

JUST MAKE SURE this is the point of selection it may be (YES then NO), or NO then NO or NO then YES)
If u get this right u will possibly able to run the OS.

It will complete the process and will automatically logout
after it completes just close it and u will be taken back to the installer screen.

………………………………………………………………………….
There select next next and click customise button
Remove POWERMANAGEMENT and also remove THERMAL kexts (just check the corresponding boxes)
DONT select any graphic adapters for intel on-board graphics card
(Others I have not tried)
install normally and restart the computer after finishing the install.
dont hit any key or remove the DVD from the drive.
Just leave everything on its own and I hope u will see the WELCOME SCREEN
please do reply if u get it done

Thanks for ur try and thanks for keeping ur hopes alive

(If u want to reply just reply in this thread adressing me, i will try to solve ur problem, if I can)

hey guys im not sure about the intel users but to any amd users still reading which is highly unlikely but i figured out how to get it to load. you have to hold f10 right when the cursor in the top right corner starts to blink. i have absolutely no idea why this works and what it does but it seems to work for me. though for amd you must have the amd patched version not the one supplied on this site.

I attempted to do this and it went fairly well. When getting past the darwin boot, it showed a gray screen with an apple then shorty after a cross out on the apple; to get past this i just went through my BIOS and selected RAID to be automatic (i do not know why i had to do this because i only have 1 drive) after i got that figured out i was able to make a new partition and actually get it installing. once it got to about 65%(i’m estimating) the screen went gray and the computer restarted when the computer turned on, all i got was a blank screen with a gray/white cursor blinking, i could not type anything. i then went into BIOS and changed the RAId setting back to where it was, this didnt solve anything and then i couldnt even boot into Windows. (must have accidentally formatted good thing i backed up) i then retried doing the Leopard installation with the same result as before. my specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 1.86Ghz, 3 GB DDR2 nVidia GeForce 8500GT
Windows XP home. Can anyone offer any help at all?

Ok I downloaded the ISO file. Then I burned it to DVD at 2x as suggested. Popped it in during boot up, it booted into the disk and asked me ���do you want to install Mac osx��� or something like that. So I hit enter. Then it said ���loading darwinx86��� or something. I���m like cool its working! But no, two seconds latter my system reboots like maybe its supposed to idk. But then it just asks me the same question. ���Do you want to install Mac osx��� What ame I doing rong.

Hi, everyone…
Hey “THE BOSS” i read your post, very informative, i shall try that. Just wanna say i tried to install using vmware with many different hardware configs, no luck so now on to trying it on my laptop. i hope all goes well, must backup.

Will post how it goes.
If it doesn’t work, then i will give apple a pat on the back for creating this hardware monopoly for there operating system and go ahead and buy a Macbook Pro, in which i can use windows too….

P.S. if you don’t even know how to burn the ISO image to a blank DVD then i really don’t think you should be trying to install Leopard on your PCs. ( to all those that can’t even use a PC properly)

You are experiencing a kernel stack error in which your processor gets reset. Unfortunately i don’t know how to fix this problem, but i maybe you can google “kernel stack error” or something to the like to help you figure this clumsy OS out.

Hi well i downloaded the ISO burned fine at 2.4x with ashampoo burning studio but when it checks the disk for consistency it fails and if i skip that then when installing it just stops then after about 10min it says error please clean the disk and try again.

I just burnt the disk and its brand new not a scratch in sight has anyone else had this error or know what to do about this. It might be a hardware error as my HD has been playing up so im of to test it on my PC now and see how that goes.

I tried it on a virtual PC, and it gave me a critical error when it hit the apple screen, is there something in the bios that must be changed, or should it work when I use a real machine and not a virtual one?

Hi is there a way to get this to burn onto a few cds if not than will someone tell me how to extract the iso into a flash drive to where it will boot of the flash drive because my pc wont boot off the iso disk but i think i burnt it wrong. But i still need help.
I tried to extrach the iso to a flash drive with magic iso but i get an error i cant copy the files on mac i get an error so please help me please.

whatever man, I lost all hopes, I tried to install this thing in every possible way and it still can’t boot the damn thing. With EFI, without it, with darwin without it….. no help. it installs fine, and at the reboot it gets stuck at the darwin screen and nothing helps…
I have E1705 Dell, Core 2 Duo 7200, 2GB ram…..
this is bull****…..
if anyone with the similar problems or a configuration???

Hi, congratulations!. I have a question. I can’t format a partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, before i select the options, the partition still appear lilke a FAT32 format :S, I use first partition maneger to create it unformated and in the intallation i select disk utility to format the partition.

can someone please help me, i been trying to install this for the last 2 days, iv downloaded the brazil, ATKOS v1.0i , and another verision, started with a k i believe, sorry i forgot the name, anyway..the brazil verision just doesnt work, it hangs at the grey apple logo screen for hours, the atkos verision sometimes installs, or says “install failed” or i have a problem with the dvd, when it does successfully install and it tells me to restart im at a black screen with white text telling me to press enter , or v and enter or ? and enter, no matter what i press nothing happens,i followed the instructions, went into disk ult. erased and made a new parition formated as mac os extended ( journaled)..set it as MBR., went into customize and selected what i needed, i have am alienware m5550, intel core 2 duo , 2 gb ram, and an 256 nvidia go 7600.. , i really need to try out this OS, next semester i start using apps like autocad and viz and they specially as for macs, so i wanna get ahead, i never used a mac os before..any info would be helpful, or of you can possibly link me to a forum where i can get help..thanks

I dont know ..I followed every instruction given, i finally was able to install it, but only the kalyway version..after a successful installation , i get …System config file ���/com.apple.Boot.plist��� not found���. .when i searched this issue, i was told i have to use a partition program to install a bootflag..so i download the iso, burned it , insert and booted it, followed the instructions, and it just freezes on me with a choppy multicolor screen, kind of like when your satellite loses signal ..and im forced to reboot..so that got me no where..

hi everyone i need help on installing iatkos v1.0, the problem is this. i booted on the dvd then after darwin loads there is a selection to either press enter to install and f8, so i choose and press enter to install iatkos when its starting it keeps on reseting my pc what seems to be the problem can anyone help me? please help i really wanna try this one thanks in advance.

I followed all the instructions, downloaded the iso file, burned it onto a dvd-r at a low speed, and booted the cd on start up… afterwards, I see the apple boot logo for a brief second, and then my system restarts, and does the same thing over and over again… my pc specs include a intel core type processor, so it should be fine… anyone have the same problem?

to the boss!!!!
I succedded to install it on my laptop! I can see the welcome screen and need to follow up, but it stack on “transfer your information” I choose “do not transfer now” but it keep going to the begining…any Idea??

after the darwin boot loader…loads….do not press enter to “install mac os x” hit F8 (i think) it will say something like do you want to boot with advanced startup options or something (i am not sure what it says exactly)

I want to install this program but, I can’t even boot it.
I downloaded the ISO as you listed in your directions, and then i burned it to a DVD+R idk if this makes a differences or not. I can’t get this to boot.
Im running on an HP pavilian DV6000 with an Intel core 2 duo processor with 2 GB of RAM and windows VISTA home premium. Can you help me??

I have been trying for a couple weeks and gone through several dvd’s. When I try to boot from the disk, the apple logo appears and I have a swirly of death that never goes away. It never loads and never reboots. It just sits there. Please help. I have Dell Inspiron 9200 with ATI mobility radeon 9700 processor. Thank you.

First installation I choosed the Nvidia drivers than it recognize my 7700GO card, I read somewhere that I dont need to choose the driver for installation, for the second installation (some other problems) I did not choose it but than it did not recognize it…now my OSX is working good, I installed some SW all working, even my Audio and BT, but no WiFi
So all people, CHOOSE your nvidia,ATI drivers thru installation!
Anyone succedded to have WiFi??

i downloaded the torrent and put it to a dvd it now says that there is a problem with it and leopard wont start when i reboot it. I got an iso unlocker and looked at the file and there was no files to start up only txt files can anyone help?

KALYWAY new release is not working for me well, no BT, No AUDIO!! No WiFi!!and no keyboard!!!! on my laptop, need to connect USB keyboard…the packege coming with nice features and software but not working good on my Asus laptop…Going back to iATKOS and will try to install some packeges from KALYWAY DVD…:)

Lukey:
I used the cdburn utility from microsoft. It’s DOS command line
Got the ISO to install fine. Used used gparted boot iso to make the parttition active (mbr). Now i’m on the registration screen for Apple and the keyboard doesn”t hmmm. Tried a usb and that wont work either, maybe I missed something in the advanced setup

If you’re having boot problems try starting up with the shift key pressed this will take longer to boot but will boot into Safe Mode. Once booted go to disk utility and click on the hard-drive to select it and then click repair permissions and then re-start. I’m not saying this will work but it may be worth trying if you’re having problems. Live long and prosper, Ste.

I cant get past the select where to install the mac os. It doesnt show any drives in the dialog box. If I use the “disk utilitities” from the install menu, in shows ALL my drives, sata, esata, ide, and usb drives but nothing show up in the “where to install” box. can anyone help?

SEAN, when I formatted one partition with Partition Magic (FAT32), I had this problem. The ���disk utilities��� showed the partition, but after erased and format in HFS+, nothing show up in the ���where to install��� box. I suggest you to format in FAT32 on “Paragon Manager” before using “disk utilities”…
Sorry for my poor english!

I installed, it booted into the Mac OS, looked great, and when I shut down it comes back to windows. No matter what I do I can’t seem to boot back into the Mac OS it just goes to vista. I have Vista on the main partition then the Mac OS on a separate partition of 30gigs. Just curious how to get back to it again…

A Q: I removed Leo from my laptop and installed VISTA 64bit edition, running smoothly…Can I install Leo again on my other partition? How does it effect on the boot records? I will be able to choose boot partition?
Can someone explain to me on how to do it please?
thanks

Ok, I’ve read some of the comments on here and I have to laugh. Some folks should NOT be even using computers if they do not understand some basic concepts.
1. The iso is in a zip file. You need to unzip it first (XP, Vista or Linux can unzip)
2. You burn this to a single layer DVD using your favorite burn tools. Alcohol 120% is one I like and it has functions such as Demon Tools to mount (huh huh I said mount) a virtual drive.
3. The reason the size of the iso is 2 gb and not 6 gb is that much of the stuff that is on the Apple dual layer DVD has been removed to fit in a single layer DVD.
4. If you do not have one of the supported processors (SSE,) it is NOT going to work on your Pentium M, nor your Pentium 4 HT.
5. You can indeed boot from a USB hard drive as long as your pc supports booting from USB. Also you need to set the MBR as well as the boot record on the drive.
6. If you have files on a NTFS format drive (XP, Vista) or on a ext2 (Linux) you WILL lose data unless you back your stuff up.

If you have any problems with any of these steps (like what is a mbr, or what is NTFS,) maybe you should NOT be doing this. Get your mommy or daddy to buy you a macbook air with leopard already installed.
Jeez.
nb

Download the iAtkos iso from mininova and burn it, right click on the image and select your burning software.
make sure your pc is set to boot from CD Rom first, load the dvd press any key to boot from dvd,you gonna get a grey screen with apple logo,it take 1or2 min to load .you should get blue screen with grey toolbar on the top,select utilities from the drop down window select disk utilities ,choose a HDD and formated ot to MAC extended (journaled) after formating you should see your HDD click on it and click continue and install.

hi kartik i am downloading tht one step installation dvd and i want to just ask one thing..i had read earlier that u have to change the file system of the hdd so tht the mac setup can detect the hdd so does tht have to be done with this setup also or not..

I have an ASUS G1S. The machine is pretty much likely the Macbook Pro. However, I wasn’t able to install. When I boot the DVD, it stays stucked in an Apple logo. I left it for 3 hours there and nothing changed. Does anyone have some help? I’ll try updating my BIOS and let you if something goes different.

a work around for the keyboard problem is to either make sure that apple recognizes where you want to type. It usually beeps if it does not know where to type. If that doesnt work…Hold the power button or press alt+Q on a PC to shut down. If the alt+Q works, pretty sure the keyboard drivers are installed fine. Also, if you have a USA Extended keyboard make sure you select that.
So turn off the computer and let it start again… they keyboard should work then.
if you are using a USB device. Make sure you plug it in before you restart. Since (atleast for me) the USB doesnt work if plugged in after on.

Also, someone asked about the iTKOS v1.0i… the 2.09 and the 2.44GB files, I believe are pretty much the same. But since the 2.09GB one works for me. So make sure you get the one that works.

Another thing, After installation, and your computer boots leopard, update software …. but make sure you do not update the leopard OS or any drivers that you arent sure of. Beacause (atleast for me) after installation it tells me to restart and then during the apple boot screen it will go Dim and tell me to press the power button and to restart. So if anyone finds out a work around for that let me know.

I tried installing the intel wireless drivers, i believe its the a/b/g drivers for 3… That crashed my computer. Update for OS Leopard crashed it. everything else works fine.. so far.

One last thing, once you finished installed and you really dont want the hassle of installing the OS once again if it crashes, make sure that you make an image of the disk, using disk utility.

Now a lot of people dont explain this properly…ill try.
After installation and making sure the OS X works. Shut down your computer or install things you want to install… like office 08, ilife 08, toast, msn messenger, firefox, quicktime update… blah blah… (make sure you dont update any drivers or experiment installing the OS X leopard update at this time) and then shut down. Put your Leopard DVD in the drive and boot off it and go to the installation of the OS like you did before.

Once it reaches the screen where it asks you to select the harddrive you want to install the deal. click on utilities and go to disk utility. Then click on the harddrive you want to image (the HDD where you installed the leopard). make sure you click on the HDD model and not the HDD name that you gave it. For example i named my primary HDD leopard… but for imaging it, i do not click on leopard, instead right above leopard the HDD model number (Fujitsu….) is listed… so click on that. Then click on the Image button on the top… select the secondary HDD that want to create the image and then leave all the settings as is… and then hit start… While its working… (dont freak when you see that your primary HDD that you are imaging is unmounted) make sure that your secondary HDD size is decreasing. Once its completed. Shutdown the computer by pressing alt + Q and then start your computer as is….

Phew hope that helped… after installing the OS more than 10 times.. i believe this would save everyone the trouble of having to wait to install all the settings and crap like that.

I have tried using the iatkos 1.0i image.uphuck 10.4.10, On my dell vostro 1500. Doesnt seem to matter what i do cant get past the kernel stack fault with either images. It installs fine no problem. I have installed both with a completley wiped out drive and had mac utilities to format. I have also done it with vista installed and had hard drive split in 2. While Vista Installed i used Acronis OS Selector To boot into mac. ANY HELP OR INSIGHT INTO HOW TO MAKE IT WORK WOULD BE GREAT THANKS.

Dear KOBI
Its nice to see u can make it work at least more than others
well do follow my instructions where I SAID CLICK ON CUSTOMIZE.
there u will find some packages…
So just give a thought and tell if u have problems..
The best way is to buy a macbook urself…
take care

hey thanks for the post it is very helpful and it cleared things out in a much better way i tried installing it earlier but was not able to do it..it just stuck on the apple logo…i am again trying it again but before that i wud just like to ask u one thing..

see i am using my 120 gig hdd to install the leopard os..but beside that i have 4 other hdd that are windows formatted and one contains windows vista on it…so i just like to know if after installing the leopard on my 120 gig hdd will i be able to make leopard see my other 4 hdd without any problems and without changing any file system cause i cant afford to loose so much data on those hdd…

Problem: iATKOS_v1.0ir2.iso [2.6Gb] that I’ve got and burned onto SONY DVD-RW Ver.1.1/2X 4.7Gb only contained 9 or so [I've already formatted it] files when viewed from Windows Explorer or Total Commander. However, when the .iso was extracted [not burned] using MagicISO, it showed 25 files, altogether equal to 2480Mb when ready to burn. The files include .fseventsd, .Trashes, .vol, Applications, bin, Install Mac OS X.app and more and two HFS+ private directories. What would be your recommendation on all of this: should it stay or should it go?
Second problem, a bit simpler: the Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso that I’ve got weights 4.698MB and simply doesn’t want to boot/work at all. Same equipment was used to burn the image – Nero 8. Same goes: what would be your recommendation on this one?
PS. My laptop [Inspiron E1505 Intel Centrino Core Duo] has MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, 1024MB DDR2 and is fully capable of running Leopard [at least that's what I believe].

hey man i tried again to install and did exactly the things tht u told but its not booting in to the os…i went to disk utility and then formated my hdd as mac journal extended and then also made a single partition on the entire drive…see the first prob i got was when i selected darwin from the utilities and then pressed Y for the efi ( it gave me an error saying tht could not unmount error 2 ) and then it automatically said process completed and logged out so then i close the terminal window and then click on continue and then it gives me option to customise so i check the remove processor thermal and the other one as u said …i also choose nvidia drivers for my card and also then i click on tht efi and then click on continue and it starts installing ..the good news was tht it installed in the first go and it just took 10 min to complete the installation…now after the system is restarted it again gave me the same darwin bootloader and as u said i did not press any key and waited for it to boot …well it gives me a white screen with apple logo and immediately io get a lot of error codes regardign processor and a debugger called panic.but then wht happens is tht the whilte screen slows keeps on turning black and finally the full screen is black…i then restart the system and then press F8 and then type in -x -v -f rd=disk0s1 and it starts a lot of computing and gives all sort of coding with regards to hardware …in the end it reaches to a part where it says loading welcome application and then after tht does nothing…..

now the above one i did with the hdd partitioned as master boot record.

next i tried with changin the hdd partition to GUID as its mentioned for mac on intel based..i installled the leopard again and the same thing after the installation…it does not boot into os when i dont press any key the same white screen turning black..and if i press F8 and type -x -v -f rd=disk0s1 now it again starts with the computing but now it reaches a line which says darwin loader ver 9.0 initialising and then it gets stuck there..

any ideas as to wht to do and how to make it work ..
i really want this to work as apple systems are very costly where i live..

Update: the 4.698Gb version works [it installs fine] up until the grey Apple screen w/ the logo appears; after approximately 5 seconds, it turns black and either does nothing [stays black indefinitely], gives me root access [#root:...], or hangs on “APH is supported” line, right after a problem w/ wireless card/driver. I tried switching the wireless and Blietooth off in BIOS, but that didn’t help. Any recommendation?

Ok, after doing some more research I ask that you please disregard my previous post. I have gotten past all of the ���loading pages��� (ie. Apple Logo with scrolling circle). I am able to get to the very beginning of the actual install process. My problem now is that when it asks me: ���Select a Destination-Where do you want to install Mac OS X Leopard?��� Nothing appears for me to select. After researching this problem I now know that I must first format one of my HD partitions from NTFS or FAT32 to HFS (also Mac Extended (journaled) I believe). I am not quite sure how to do this but I tried my best using the software on the DVD. My only problem now is that I am unable to use my keyboard to input a new partition name or something like that. So now that I am thoroughly confused, here are two (2) questions that I have:

First-How do I exactly format one of my HD���s to the proper Mac format? (the steps would be nice)
Second-Is there some button that I need to hold down in order to get my keyboard to function again (I will list my computers specifications at the end)?

The only reason that I am really doing this is due to the fact that HP sent me a corrupted file of Vista and seems unable/unwilling to fix it. Apparently I am running a non-genuine version of Vista straight from HP *shakes fist*
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Computer Specifications:

hudreckb,
I believe you might have an issue, since you have an AMD processor. You might need to get the AMD compatible leopard.
Anyways, Ill tell you how to erase your drive.
1) Enter Disk Utility
2) Select the drive you want to install or format. You will have to click on the Drive name and not the model number and make.
3) Click on erase
4) Select the MAC OS Extended (jounaled) partition.
5) Click erase.
6) After a few seconds your drive is ready for installation

Hey plz can anyone help me….i am able to install it perfectly fine but then after the restart it doesnt boot and it gives me file not found..so i press F8 and then -v -x -f rd=disk0s1 ..but tht gives me a lot of coding and then gets stuck at sometimes darvin ver 9.0 or sometimes get stuck at starting logon application or something like tht…i checked on google and read all the posts here and its mentioned to seelct the darwin bootloader from the customised menu and also choose sse2 or sse3 but all those option + the option of vanilla kernel i dont get only..
ne one ne suggestions plz do email me at kartikaye.tripathi@gmail.com
thanks a million in advance

I had the same problem as you i tried alot of different stuff bit i typed in space?. (Didn’t actually type space just pushed the spacebar.)

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I have a problem.
I have it mac leopard running but i don’t get any sound. I tried to play songs in iTunes but it says playing but the numbers don’t go up/advance and i get no sound. Can any one help?? Any suggestions are appreciated.

hudreckb,
You do not need to format using windows commands. Boot through the DVD. Get to the setup for leopard. Once you accept the terms and conditions, it should bring you to a screen where it shows your hard drives. Now, on the top menu bar you will see utilities. Click and enter disk utilities.
Now, I am not sure how many hard drives you have, or if you want to partition a single drive. Based on that I can tell you what to do next.
But if you want to install leopard on a single hardrive with no partitions, after you come to this step, follow the instructions before.
You do not need to pre format your drives before you boot in to leopard. When I installed it, I had Vista running on my laptop. So both my hardrives (Not Partitions, 2 physical drives) were in NTFS state.

hudreckb,
hmm … you said you have a laptop right? Can you see if the Alt+Q button works? See if any of the keys work. If they are beeping they are working. Just not registering where to type. If they are not beeping, try plugging in a USB keyboard or a PS/2 keyboard if you have a port. Usually, drivers for such basic devices should load without a problem.
If not, you might want to download another version of the leopard-AMD. The same thing happened with me, The DVD I downloaded the first time, did not install properly. I had to try 3 before I got it right. So if nothing works, it might be that the drivers on the DVD have not been copied right or corrupted.
As far as I know keyboard drivers should be installed automatically, since there is no way you can put a driver in to the DVD. Usually most BIOS support USB keyboards.

Try these options and see if they work. Another site where you could get the version of leopard would be phazeddl.c om, that is if you are using rapidshare as your download source

i will try plugging a keyboard in later on today. one last question (hopefully), can you go through step by step how to fix my HD i only have one drive that is partitioned once. i believe that i am confused because i do not see a HD listed anywhere

Hey folks,
I have feister ubuntu linux installed in my machine. I have also vista home premium 32 bit and wish to partition the disc for a leopard mac os.

Have you guys tried to run multi os together with leopard? Any configuration to be done before apart from the partitioning? Was just asking cos I installed xp to run in a vista pc for a friend and I had to install SATA drivers etc. and it was a hell of a procedure.

Ok this message is for everyone who has problems with installing loepard on a partition. When you start the installation process you can see a menu at the top. In this menu you see a few options but you have to go to utilities. And when you are in the utilities menu you see a few options. If you did everything right so far you should see the option disk utility. In this menu that should pop up you can either make an partition or delete partitions. Then after you did this you should close the programme and open the folder utilities->Darwin_Boot.. follow the onscreen instructions and then if you did everything right you go back to the menu and you select agree and you follow the rest of the installation. Ok now I have a question: I made a partition, installed leopard succesfully on it and then when It asks me to reboot the comuter I just reboot. But then when I boot the computer the installation starts over again!! Does anyone know how to fix this??? timhendriks_9@hotmail.com

There could be two things wrong with your partion:
A. You need make sure that your partion is selected to boot.
You can do this by making a gpart live cd. Then boot that up and choose auto config. After that loads choose your partion right click on it and choose flags and select boot. Restart with eject cd and pop the ISO that you used back in. It should automatically load to leopard for you to start but if it restarts or stays at the cursor screen then type -x -v – f rd=disk0s1 (if it is that partion, but if not you could always go back into install and go to disk utility, click info to find partion name). It should now work but if your pc still restarts try tapping enter after the text that says loading and only when the text becomes a smaller size. You should be able to get it to work now.
B. You installed bootloader with efi. If A did not work then erase partion and install without choose no patches and see if that works

I finally got the iATKOS to boot. from darwin it begins to load, displaying the apple logo and loading wheele, but it never loads. Maybe im doing something wrong. If anyone here has either had this problame or installed it on an HP Pavilian dv6000 with an Intel Core 2 duo processor please let me know!! [=

Well i shoud just take u back where u chose customize button…
the Darwin boot is the key and u have to do a trial and error…
Dont install any drivers from the package may ne NVIDIA or anything
Just check remove thermal kexts and power management…
I am glad u were able to install congrats for that
Now just play with Darwin boot yes / no or no / yes for efi
do tell what is the processor u r using with board number

Hey, been trying to install leopard on my intel Centrino Duo for about a week now and im as close to giving up as doesnt even matter! Ive tried nearly every release – kalyway, Brazil Patched, iAktos. Ive tried every combination of extensions after pressing F8 and iv got it to the installion page about 3 times, but either it says there is a problem with the disc, or starts the installation and panics…

What i dont understand is why one time it works using -x after F8 and then the other 100 times i try that it just panics… its driving me insane!

Im not sure but im thinking it may have something to do with BIOS.
My hardware matches a MAC book. When i inserted the APPLE leopard dvd i bought ( Factory version from apple) All my drivers for my hardware are acually on the DVD. Since apple supplies this software for an Intel 945 chipset im guessing that leopard should work with the right patch. The only thing i can possibly see is the BIOS Stopping the Iatkos from loading. Im affraid that if i disrup Bios on my computer it won’t allow me to restore my HP Pavilian back to factory settings, because it uses the information from BIOS. Im only 15 doing this for a school project so can someone tell me if im on the right track?

People are probobly getting sick of me but, its seems to me people with AMD processors are having an easier way to go then those with Intel Processors. I have that intel core 2 duo 1.73ghz intel centrino technology
and I can’t even boot the install. You guys are smart to be able to get this far, and get it to work with alot of peoples computers. Im really sure that this should be able to work. If anyone at all has had an installer stop at the apple logo and got past it, Please let me know and share how you got past it I’ll do the same for you. ^_^

Don’t update to 10.5.2 this hack was made for 10.5.1 not 10.5.1 duh!!!!

I have leopard working on my dell e1405 with 1.76 duo core processor but with no wifi and no audio, but I have my ethernet port working as i am writing this from leopard. Also I have windows vista installed on here. I use a GPart live cd where I switch between which partion i am to load from.

I don’t know why so many people are having problems. Even though i have to bootload from the cd everytime because if I don’t I get a hfs+ partition error, i get by it with -x -v -f rd=disk0s1 and when it starts running after loading I tap enter until I am able to move the cursor. That usually gets it to work.

Try getting the image off of mininova (yeah it takes forever) then upgrade the download with the link I posted before. The use magiciso to burn it but make sure you choose the slowest burn speed possible if not the information on the disk won’t be fully readable

That’ s the graetest think i saw in my life.very nice job (if it works.).
I have an acer aspire 5920g with Vista home premium and i want to try. I download the the torrent and i opened it with Azureus, now i am downloading with 50kb/s. What i do wrong?Please help me sameone.thk.

After Completley Wiping Out System And Reinstalled With Just Using All efi Options And The Broadcom Ethernet Driver It All Works.
The Only Thing That Doesnt Work Is The Sound. The Specs Of My Laptop I have Already Posted On Here And its not dead exact as macbook but very very close. If u or anyone else knows how to get sigmatel aduio to work let me kno thanks.

ok what do you mean you got everything to work? Can you bootload without the cd img? And if your pc has wifi capabilities, are you able to use it?

Well anyways, about your audio problem, I think that the best way for you to try and get the sound to work is to go to the sigmatel drivers page and see if you can find the drivers there that might be compatible to work on leopard. There pretty much isnt any other solution right now.

Ok After Wiping Out my laptop i got everything to work except for audio and some video problems. No i cant boot with out the cd in the drive. Havent figured it out yet but when it pops up for cd i hit f8 then type
-x-v-f rd=disk0s1. Also my laptop has wifi and it works. It registers as apple airport and i can select my network.If u look up a few u will c my laptop specs and model that i am working with. I have followed a guide off hack attack for my laptop model. Eeverything works know with using his guide. The Auio Perfect as far as i can tell. Video No Problems even with games. Wifi No problem very very fast. I havent installed the 10.5.2 as kinda nervous to.

Wow ok that is pretty cool that you were able to get the wifi working. Can you post the guide so that I can see if I could get my wifi to work, because I am using a 1500 dell mini card.

Also about updating I would say hold back on it unless you are quite sure that it will work on your comp. Many people who have updated haven’t had there leopard work again until they reinstalled, you wouldn’t want that

Here is the guide i used to get everything working. As far as the wifi goes it was atomatically installed by Iatkos Disk. THIS IS NOT MY GUIDE DONT ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. This also covers DUAL BOOTING ON DELL VOSTRO 1500. I cant guratnee it will work for all systems this jsut worked for my dell vostro 1500.
Okay! Since this community was so helpful in getting my Vostro 1500 turned into a Hackbook Pro, and it required flipping through several different threads, i thought I would compile everything I had to look up into one Mega Vostro thread. This information took me from a stock Vostro 1500 with Windows XP Home, to a Dual Booting, 10.5.2 Leopard w/ Vanilla 9.2.0 Kernel, and XP Pro X64. I will also do my best to provide links to 64 bit XP drivers for this unit, as that was honestly the most time consuming, and headache causing part of this whole ordeal. I will also let you know that I have not found a working 56k Modem driver for Windows XP x64, so if this is a deal breaker, you can just stop reading here!

First I’m going to start with the basics, this guide is written for a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop speced as follows:

At the end of this guide, if you have this configuration, you should have a working Vostro 1500 that Dual Boots Leopard and XP x64 where 98% of OSx86 is working. I will tell you right now the following I have not bothered to start messing with ATM, and are not currently working.

Speedstep – I work primarily plugged in, and I have it disabled in the BIOS because I want to be at 1.4 Ghz at all times, so I don’t really care if this works or not.
Battery Meter – There is a wonderful guide for this in MacGirl’s Dell thread (found here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83039) that I’m sure if I took the time, it would work, but I haven’t so it doesn’t.
Sleep – Were you really expecting it to anyways?
Reboot/Power Down – Reboot was working at initial install, but since I patched the audio it hasn’t been. The system blacks out, but never totally shuts off, I just do that manually. If anyone has a fix for this, I would really appriciate it as it’s the only thing about my install that kind of bugs me.

What is working:

Dual Core CPU
1280×800 Resolution w/ full switching and QE/CI support, Dual Monitor shows up but is untested
Properly Detects RAM speed and Processor Type
Integrated 10/100 LAN
DVD Read tested and working fine, have yet to test writing
Audio working on internal speakers and headphone jack, have not tested mic in
Wireless out of the box, detected as Airport
Bluetooth

This should give you everything you need for everyday use, the system also stays very cool, never getting warmer then it does normally in windows, I dont’ have an exact temp for you sorry.

Alright, now that we know what to expect once you’ve finished up, lets get start on the making it work part. You will need to following:

First! Power up your Vostro and make sure it is set to boot to DVD first, then HDD. Once this is done, insert your iATKOSir2 DVD and reboot.

Let iATKOSir2 load, and then open Disc Utility. Select a 2 Partition Configuration, and size them accordingly for what you want each OS to have. I have mine split evenly, with 80 GB dedicated to each OS.

Once this is done, close Disc Utility, and continue your install to the HFS+ Journaled partition, mine is called Leopard. When you get to the screen with the Customize option, click it and select the following options ONLY!

EFI Bootloader and all sub options
Broadcom 440x Network Driver

Then click continue, and skip the DVD check, and prepare to wait, it takes a bit for the OS to install.

Once this is done, the system should say Successfully Installed! and show you the Green Checkmark of success +1! Restart your laptop, and insert your GParted Live CD. Press enter through the options until you get to the disc utility.

Next you are going to want to select your HFS+ Journaled partition and enable the Boot flag to make that drive bootable. Once this is done, you can close the disc utility, and reboot your system. Remove the GParted Live CD and you should be prompted with the darwin boot loader.

At this point, press enter, and boot with the -v flag just to be safe, the system shouldn’t hang up, but just in case, I always boot with -v on the first run through. Once the system runs through its boot, you should be booted with a choppy version of the Leopard Intro Video. Don’t Panic! We’re going to make the graphics work very shortly.

Run through the account creation process, and press Clover+Q to skip the registration page, (it should be Alt+Q on your keyboard) and boot to your new Leopard Desktop for the first time.

Once at the desktop, we have a couple of things to take care of, namely Video, Audio and Updating to 10.5.2 w/ vanilla kernel 9.2.0 + Leopard Graphics Update.

You want to click GET IT HERE in the first post, then go to the DOWNLOAD PAGE and getNVInstaller v.33.

Once this file is downloaded, you want to run the .pkg files and install for your card accordingly, which should be the following options:

Final 10.5.2 kexts
128mb card

then click continue and let the installer do its thing. Reboot, and you should now have fully working graphics with Resolution switching, and full QE/CI. To be safe, once again when you reboot, I would recommend booting with -v to debug any issues that might incur.

Next step, working audio! This one took me a few trys, but thankfully, the wiki for 10.5.1 on this unit will work perfectly, I’m going to link it here, and then explain it. Here is the wiki link: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph…les#Vostro_1500

For those too lazy to click through, here is basically what you want to do.

Put these files on your desktop. Once this is done, you want to drag the Stac9205.txt file into AppleHDA Patcher v1.20. You will see some text in the box, and then it will say Done or Complete or something along those lines. Now, before you reboot, take the AppleHDA.kext file you downloaded fromt he last link, and put it in System/Library/Extensions. It will ask you to authenticate with your user password, and overwrite the file, this is fine, do so.

Then go to Applications/Utilities/Disc Utility, select your Leopard install drive, and repair permissions, then reboot. Again I recommend using the -v flag to check for errors, but you shouldn’t encounter any.

Once OS X boots again you should not have fully working audio, at least to the extent I have tested it.

This is all I really had to do to get the machine to the point I’m happy with it driver wise. Next, we’re going to move on to the 10.5.2 update, which is a relatively simple process.

For those of you too lazy to click through again, I’m going to quote that post, and give my thanks to Kalyway for this update, as well as Foodie Monster for the process that worked for me, so thanks guys!

QUOTE
Excuse me if I quote one of my favorite games of ’07 here: “This was a triumph. I’m making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS!”

I am now running Mac OS X 10.5.2, with Vanilla Kernel 9.2 (Yup the updated one!), GUID, EFI and all that stuff! Just wanted to report to all of you that on my system (check specs in my Signature) I just did the following:

1) Procure the necessary files: Search at “The Bay” (You know, where everybody says “Yarr!”, drink Grog and eat oranges to fight scurvy) for the files: you are looking for Kalyway’s ComboUpdate for 10.5.2 as well as the other file, the Updated Kernel (I can’t link here, but do a search for “kalyway” for the first file, and a search for “kernel” for the second file – make sure you sort by date so you can find it easily smile.gif )

2) Once you have the files, BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT DATA – Everything in Hackintosh is YMMV, so if you are playing the game, might as well know the rules. Only once you’ve done this, you can proceed to installing the Combo Update (KalywayUpdCombo10.5.2.pkg) – Yes there are other files in your download, don’t worry about them.

3) Once that’s done and it asks you to restart, leave the window open and open up Disk Utility. Why? Because repairing permissions is never a bad idea. I don’t know if it’s necessary, but I did it and my system is working perfectly with no hitches.

4) Restart your system by clicking the Button. Once you do this, you’ll see the Apple Screen, and after a long while, the system will reboot. THIS IS NORMAL! Don’t panic! Once it reboots, it’ll stay in the Apple Screen again, and then everything will go black. Very black. The system will stay that way for several minutes (some people say up to 3-4 minutes, it was about 2-3 for me), but after that period in which no doubt you’ve been holding your breath, you’ll see the Blue desktop signaling that it lives! And after a few moments, your wallpaper will pop up and congrats, you are now in 10.5.2! biggrin.gif

Now, if you don’t want the new Kernel, you are done here. Go make yourself a sandwich. If you do want to install the new Kernel though, do the following:

5) After doing all of above, crack open the new “kalyway_10.5.2_kernels.mpkg.zip” file. Inside there’ll be a file called “kalyway_10.5.2_kernels.mpkg”. Run this, and you’ll have 2 options. Select the appropriate for your system – there’s a description when you select either that’ll help you chose. In my case, I chose the first one for Vanilla Kernel.

6) Reboot when prompted. It’ll boot back into your desktop, no fuzz, and you’ll have the 9.2.0 Darwin kernel. Congratulations! YOU NEW KING OF FIGHTERS!

So there you have it. Mind you, I have not installed the Graphics Update yet, not until I hear some confirmation that it won’t screw up my Install. But if you are not hard pressed for that Graphics Update, those are the steps I followed to get my system to be up-to-date to the latest version of OS X, with the latest Kernel.

Hope that helps any of you! Cheers and good luck!

Once you finished with that process, that’s pretty much it! You can now proceed to do the Leopard Graphics Update and not worry about anything, it works perfectly fine on this build. You should now have a fully updated Leopard install with 10.5.2 compliments of iATKOS and Kalyway (thanks again guys!) with a full 9.2.0 Vanilla Kernel.

Now, if you have no interest in Dual Booting your machine, scurry off and start installing whatever OS X apps you want (I recommend Onyx, Geekbench, XSlimmer, Adium and Parallels Desktop {for when you’re too lazy to reboot to hit windows if you are dual booting})

If, however, you are interested in dual booting, it’s time to move on to Installing Windows XP Professional X64.

Dual Booting!

For this section, you will be using that XP Pro x64 disc I was talking about. To start, reboot your computer with the XP Pro x64 disc in drive, and begin the setup process.

Once you get to the partition options, it will tell you that another partition on this machine has been marked as bootable, and that windows will need to change this in order for the computer work properly, and that you can change this option from within windows at any time. Don’t worry about it, and let it change the boot flag on this partition.

You should now be looking at 2 partitions, mine listed as this

C: Unknown Partition
E: Unpartitioned Space

You want to select E: and partition create a New Partition on it, and then reboot your system.

The reason for this is that windows automatically assigns any valid partition C:, even if it can’t use it. If you try and install to E: it’s going to give you a headache in the long run, so just partition and reboot.

Once back to this screen, proceed to install XP Pro x64 to your new C: Partition, which should now show up as:

C: New Partition

I just formatted it to NTFS (quick) and let the installer do it’s thing.

Once this is all done, you should be looking at your XP x64 Desktop.

I’m also going to highlight this simply for the irony of it. It is easier to get OSx86 to work on this laptop, then to get an x64 build of windows to function properly, the drivers are buried in Dell’s website, or often the manufacturers directly, and it took me about 4 or 5 hours to get everything working.

As I’m sure most of you are familiar with windows, I’m not going to go into a long detailed process on how to install drivers unless they are particularly hard, what I will do is provide links to the proper drivers, so you don’t have the wild goose chase I did getting this thing to work. So here we go

Run the nvidia installer until it tells you that there has been no compatible video device on this computer. Then go to C:\NVIDIA\Win2KAMD64\169.21\English and put the modified .INF file in this directory. Once that’s done run Setup.exe again, and it should install your graphics driver properly.

I believe thats it really. I don’t recall there being any other issues with this unit. I will of course tell you you need to go and grab XP SP2 for x64 Professional, which is about 350 MB, happy downloading and that you should run a full course of windows updates afterwards.

Once this is all said and done, and your windows install is configured the way you like it, the dual boot step is super easy, at least it was for me. All you do is reboot, and put the GParted Live CD back in your computer, and re-mark the HFS+ Journaled partition as bootable, and when the darwin boot loader comes up, you hit enter, it should now give you the following options

(hd0,1)Leopard
(hd0,2)Windows

Which is pretty self explanatory, pick Leopard for OS X and Windows for your windows install.

So, yep, that should take care of it honestly! If I missed any XP x64 Drivers, please let me know and I’ll dig up which ones I missed and try and get them posted here for you, as I know its a pain in the ass to try and find them all scattered all over the intarwebs.

Again I would like to thank the following members of the community that got this up and running with their subsequent guides and files and other contributions to this project:

THIS GUIDE WAS WRITTEN BYE HEXIDECMAL NOT ME SO ALL THANKS GOES TO HIM AND THE WHOLE INSALEYMAC.COM

Okay! Since this community was so helpful in getting my Vostro 1500 turned into a Hackbook Pro, and it required flipping through several different threads, i thought I would compile everything I had to look up into one Mega Vostro thread. This information took me from a stock Vostro 1500 with Windows XP Home, to a Dual Booting, 10.5.2 Leopard w/ Vanilla 9.2.0 Kernel, and XP Pro X64. I will also do my best to provide links to 64 bit XP drivers for this unit, as that was honestly the most time consuming, and headache causing part of this whole ordeal. I will also let you know that I have not found a working 56k Modem driver for Windows XP x64, so if this is a deal breaker, you can just stop reading here!

First I’m going to start with the basics, this guide is written for a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop speced as follows:

At the end of this guide, if you have this configuration, you should have a working Vostro 1500 that Dual Boots Leopard and XP x64 where 98% of OSx86 is working. I will tell you right now the following I have not bothered to start messing with ATM, and are not currently working.

Speedstep – I work primarily plugged in, and I have it disabled in the BIOS because I want to be at 1.4 Ghz at all times, so I don’t really care if this works or not.
Battery Meter – There is a wonderful guide for this in MacGirl’s Dell thread (found here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83039) that I’m sure if I took the time, it would work, but I haven’t so it doesn’t.
Sleep – Were you really expecting it to anyways?
Reboot/Power Down – Reboot was working at initial install, but since I patched the audio it hasn’t been. The system blacks out, but never totally shuts off, I just do that manually. If anyone has a fix for this, I would really appriciate it as it’s the only thing about my install that kind of bugs me.

What is working:

Dual Core CPU
1280×800 Resolution w/ full switching and QE/CI support, Dual Monitor shows up but is untested
Properly Detects RAM speed and Processor Type
Integrated 10/100 LAN
DVD Read tested and working fine, have yet to test writing
Audio working on internal speakers and headphone jack, have not tested mic in
Wireless out of the box, detected as Airport
Bluetooth

This should give you everything you need for everyday use, the system also stays very cool, never getting warmer then it does normally in windows, I dont’ have an exact temp for you sorry.

Alright, now that we know what to expect once you’ve finished up, lets get start on the making it work part. You will need to following:

First! Power up your Vostro and make sure it is set to boot to DVD first, then HDD. Once this is done, insert your iATKOSir2 DVD and reboot.

Let iATKOSir2 load, and then open Disc Utility. Select a 2 Partition Configuration, and size them accordingly for what you want each OS to have. I have mine split evenly, with 80 GB dedicated to each OS.

Once this is done, close Disc Utility, and continue your install to the HFS+ Journaled partition, mine is called Leopard. When you get to the screen with the Customize option, click it and select the following options ONLY!

EFI Bootloader and all sub options
Broadcom 440x Network Driver

Then click continue, and skip the DVD check, and prepare to wait, it takes a bit for the OS to install.

Once this is done, the system should say Successfully Installed! and show you the Green Checkmark of success +1! Restart your laptop, and insert your GParted Live CD. Press enter through the options until you get to the disc utility.

Next you are going to want to select your HFS+ Journaled partition and enable the Boot flag to make that drive bootable. Once this is done, you can close the disc utility, and reboot your system. Remove the GParted Live CD and you should be prompted with the darwin boot loader.

At this point, press enter, and boot with the -v flag just to be safe, the system shouldn’t hang up, but just in case, I always boot with -v on the first run through. Once the system runs through its boot, you should be booted with a choppy version of the Leopard Intro Video. Don’t Panic! We’re going to make the graphics work very shortly.

Run through the account creation process, and press Clover+Q to skip the registration page, (it should be Alt+Q on your keyboard) and boot to your new Leopard Desktop for the first time.

Once at the desktop, we have a couple of things to take care of, namely Video, Audio and Updating to 10.5.2 w/ vanilla kernel 9.2.0 + Leopard Graphics Update.

You want to click GET IT HERE in the first post, then go to the DOWNLOAD PAGE and getNVInstaller v.33.

Once this file is downloaded, you want to run the .pkg files and install for your card accordingly, which should be the following options:

Final 10.5.2 kexts
128mb card

then click continue and let the installer do its thing. Reboot, and you should now have fully working graphics with Resolution switching, and full QE/CI. To be safe, once again when you reboot, I would recommend booting with -v to debug any issues that might incur.

Next step, working audio! This one took me a few trys, but thankfully, the wiki for 10.5.1 on this unit will work perfectly, I’m going to link it here, and then explain it. Here is the wiki link: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph…les#Vostro_1500

For those too lazy to click through, here is basically what you want to do.

Put these files on your desktop. Once this is done, you want to drag the Stac9205.txt file into AppleHDA Patcher v1.20. You will see some text in the box, and then it will say Done or Complete or something along those lines. Now, before you reboot, take the AppleHDA.kext file you downloaded fromt he last link, and put it in System/Library/Extensions. It will ask you to authenticate with your user password, and overwrite the file, this is fine, do so.

Then go to Applications/Utilities/Disc Utility, select your Leopard install drive, and repair permissions, then reboot. Again I recommend using the -v flag to check for errors, but you shouldn’t encounter any.

Once OS X boots again you should not have fully working audio, at least to the extent I have tested it.

This is all I really had to do to get the machine to the point I’m happy with it driver wise. Next, we’re going to move on to the 10.5.2 update, which is a relatively simple process.

For those of you too lazy to click through again, I’m going to quote that post, and give my thanks to Kalyway for this update, as well as Foodie Monster for the process that worked for me, so thanks guys!

QUOTE
Excuse me if I quote one of my favorite games of ’07 here: “This was a triumph. I’m making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS!”

I am now running Mac OS X 10.5.2, with Vanilla Kernel 9.2 (Yup the updated one!), GUID, EFI and all that stuff! Just wanted to report to all of you that on my system (check specs in my Signature) I just did the following:

1) Procure the necessary files: Search at “The Bay” (You know, where everybody says “Yarr!”, drink Grog and eat oranges to fight scurvy) for the files: you are looking for Kalyway’s ComboUpdate for 10.5.2 as well as the other file, the Updated Kernel (I can’t link here, but do a search for “kalyway” for the first file, and a search for “kernel” for the second file – make sure you sort by date so you can find it easily smile.gif )

2) Once you have the files, BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT DATA – Everything in Hackintosh is YMMV, so if you are playing the game, might as well know the rules. Only once you’ve done this, you can proceed to installing the Combo Update (KalywayUpdCombo10.5.2.pkg) – Yes there are other files in your download, don’t worry about them.

3) Once that’s done and it asks you to restart, leave the window open and open up Disk Utility. Why? Because repairing permissions is never a bad idea. I don’t know if it’s necessary, but I did it and my system is working perfectly with no hitches.

4) Restart your system by clicking the Button. Once you do this, you’ll see the Apple Screen, and after a long while, the system will reboot. THIS IS NORMAL! Don’t panic! Once it reboots, it’ll stay in the Apple Screen again, and then everything will go black. Very black. The system will stay that way for several minutes (some people say up to 3-4 minutes, it was about 2-3 for me), but after that period in which no doubt you’ve been holding your breath, you’ll see the Blue desktop signaling that it lives! And after a few moments, your wallpaper will pop up and congrats, you are now in 10.5.2! biggrin.gif

Now, if you don’t want the new Kernel, you are done here. Go make yourself a sandwich. If you do want to install the new Kernel though, do the following:

5) After doing all of above, crack open the new “kalyway_10.5.2_kernels.mpkg.zip” file. Inside there’ll be a file called “kalyway_10.5.2_kernels.mpkg”. Run this, and you’ll have 2 options. Select the appropriate for your system – there’s a description when you select either that’ll help you chose. In my case, I chose the first one for Vanilla Kernel.

6) Reboot when prompted. It’ll boot back into your desktop, no fuzz, and you’ll have the 9.2.0 Darwin kernel. Congratulations! YOU NEW KING OF FIGHTERS!

So there you have it. Mind you, I have not installed the Graphics Update yet, not until I hear some confirmation that it won’t screw up my Install. But if you are not hard pressed for that Graphics Update, those are the steps I followed to get my system to be up-to-date to the latest version of OS X, with the latest Kernel.

Hope that helps any of you! Cheers and good luck!

Once you finished with that process, that’s pretty much it! You can now proceed to do the Leopard Graphics Update and not worry about anything, it works perfectly fine on this build. You should now have a fully updated Leopard install with 10.5.2 compliments of iATKOS and Kalyway (thanks again guys!) with a full 9.2.0 Vanilla Kernel.

Now, if you have no interest in Dual Booting your machine, scurry off and start installing whatever OS X apps you want (I recommend Onyx, Geekbench, XSlimmer, Adium and Parallels Desktop {for when you’re too lazy to reboot to hit windows if you are dual booting})

If, however, you are interested in dual booting, it’s time to move on to Installing Windows XP Professional X64.

Dual Booting!

For this section, you will be using that XP Pro x64 disc I was talking about. To start, reboot your computer with the XP Pro x64 disc in drive, and begin the setup process.

Once you get to the partition options, it will tell you that another partition on this machine has been marked as bootable, and that windows will need to change this in order for the computer work properly, and that you can change this option from within windows at any time. Don’t worry about it, and let it change the boot flag on this partition.

You should now be looking at 2 partitions, mine listed as this

C: Unknown Partition
E: Unpartitioned Space

You want to select E: and partition create a New Partition on it, and then reboot your system.

The reason for this is that windows automatically assigns any valid partition C:, even if it can’t use it. If you try and install to E: it’s going to give you a headache in the long run, so just partition and reboot.

Once back to this screen, proceed to install XP Pro x64 to your new C: Partition, which should now show up as:

C: New Partition

I just formatted it to NTFS (quick) and let the installer do it’s thing.

Once this is all done, you should be looking at your XP x64 Desktop.

I’m also going to highlight this simply for the irony of it. It is easier to get OSx86 to work on this laptop, then to get an x64 build of windows to function properly, the drivers are buried in Dell’s website, or often the manufacturers directly, and it took me about 4 or 5 hours to get everything working.

As I’m sure most of you are familiar with windows, I’m not going to go into a long detailed process on how to install drivers unless they are particularly hard, what I will do is provide links to the proper drivers, so you don’t have the wild goose chase I did getting this thing to work. So here we go

Run the nvidia installer until it tells you that there has been no compatible video device on this computer. Then go to C:\NVIDIA\Win2KAMD64\169.21\English and put the modified .INF file in this directory. Once that’s done run Setup.exe again, and it should install your graphics driver properly.

I believe thats it really. I don’t recall there being any other issues with this unit. I will of course tell you you need to go and grab XP SP2 for x64 Professional, which is about 350 MB, happy downloading and that you should run a full course of windows updates afterwards.

Once this is all said and done, and your windows install is configured the way you like it, the dual boot step is super easy, at least it was for me. All you do is reboot, and put the GParted Live CD back in your computer, and re-mark the HFS+ Journaled partition as bootable, and when the darwin boot loader comes up, you hit enter, it should now give you the following options

(hd0,1)Leopard
(hd0,2)Windows

Which is pretty self explanatory, pick Leopard for OS X and Windows for your windows install.

So, yep, that should take care of it honestly! If I missed any XP x64 Drivers, please let me know and I’ll dig up which ones I missed and try and get them posted here for you, as I know its a pain in the ass to try and find them all scattered all over the intarwebs.

Again I would like to thank the following members of the community that got this up and running with their subsequent guides and files and other contributions to this project:

Apple sees my wifi card as broadcom 4xxx when i boot up with -v rd=disk0s1.

Tried installing the 10.5.2 update like it stated in my previouse post. It worked for me but i lost my audio and wifi. So reinstalled 10.5.1 and know when i repair permissions i get Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. How do i repair or fix this problem. I have never seen this till know. Also i have lost the speaker icon up top but still get sound. Cant figure out how that happened.

If u dont whant to lose any xp stuff then i would get something like acronis disk director. it allows you to split hard drive and other necesary things u need. Also It includes acronis os selector that might be usefull to u.

TO EVERYONE THE TUTORIALS I LISTED ARE NOT MINE ALL CREDIT NEEDS TO GO TO HACKINTOSH.ORG AND EVERYONE ELSE LISTED ON THEM. I JUST POSTED FOR PEOPLE TO READ.

I have Acronis now, but everytime I create a partition, and finalize it, after i reboot its not there. I also tell it not to pick a file system, which could be why. Any idea what file system I should put it as?

I was looking around, and saw that the installer had a way to partition. Should I do it within there. I just got confused though because I already have 2 partitions (XP and Recovery), but I didn’t know whether to select “1 partition” or “3 partitions”..

Ok u have it split in two partions. dont worry about not seeing it. Pop in the mac dvd and use the disk utility program in it and format that blank partion as mac journaled. that should take care of it. then go ahead and install everything u need for youre pc. I beleive that should take care of it. If someone else knows any better way then please jump in.This is the way i am doing it since i jsut put vista on my laptop and am getting ready to install mac also. then install acronis os selector to use to dual boot.

If you could not get any of the os selectors to work you could always turn to using the gpart live cd.
Choose auto config then allow to load, follow directions.
Then when you see your partions right click the partion you want to boot and choose manage flags. Check the boot box then restart and you are all good

I insert the disk and it says darwin boot loader….i click….and i see the apple logo with the spinning sign underneath, but it just keeps on going for hours….im using a hp dv9000 intel core 2 duo….sse2+….am i supposed to type something before going to the apple screen?

Well After Wiping Out My Dell Vostro 1500 Completley, I am able to dual boot. First I installed vista buisness. Then once that was done and fully updated i poped in iATKOS 1.01 R2. Let it boot up and hit install. Then once through i went into utilities then disk utilities. Formatted partion 1 as mad journeled (extended). Once that was done i picked out my patches. My drivers i used was bootlader efi with everything below that clicked. Then i installed broadcom Networking Patch. And i beleive that is all the patches i picked as far as i can remember. Once it installed and said had to restart i whent back to utilities then disk utilitie and repaired permisions. Once that was done i rebooted then when it asked press f8 i beleve to see start up options it showed mac leaopard and vista. KNOW I NO LONGER NEED MAC DVD TO BOOT INTO IT. I JUST SELECT MAC AND PRESS ENTER THEN IT BOOTS RIGHT INTO IT. SAME GOES FOR VISTA. HOPE THIS HELPS ANYONE WITH THE SAME LAPTOP OR CLOSE TO IT.

hey, i was wondering, when you download the ISO how do you put it onto the DVD+R, do you need a special program to burn it? Or do you just right click on it and press send to and then press cd drive? It says there is not cd, are you sure you have to use a DVD+R, not a CD+R?

OK so i burned the disk on my laptop so that i could use my other computer meanwhile and i left the disk in and when i turned it on it booted into BIOS and asked if i would like to install MAC OSX
the weird thing is when i sent my laptop in for repair they replaced my intel pentium 4 for a AMD Turion64
So would it be safe to try to install it?
Reply would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I have read through just about every post but not finding what I am doing wrong. Here are a few things I notice after I try to load it.

ERRORS – at least the ones I could remember lol
com.apple.driver … has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi … use only 1 styl
cant mount /dev/disk1s1
core raid server not responding.
Then it goes right to install screen.

First of all, I would like to thank you for the support you have already provided me. I’m being really cautious on this right now just because I have some files I dont feel like backing up, and dont want to reinstall XP.

I tried it again. It seems like after I commit, I start back booting XP, it brings up the menu and “creates” the partition. Then it reboots, does some last stuff and loads XP up. After that it is never seen again and I am back to those 2

Yes i agree mac should make it for pc then i would almost gurantee microsoft would have to redo windows period. Mac Rules The World I dont care what percentage microsoft says they rule. If it wasnt for macs sky high prices they would have the majority of people over windows.

Thanks bigfdaddy
can u explain me about iATKOS how to get and get it work.
So far wat i have seen it has an good interface but lack tools to customize. Windows device manager & better power management tools.. itunes sucks ass windows media player is a way better option.. there other small stuffs which wont actual make me a mac user. but i will give it more time after i get it to work.
Thanks again for the help

Mike i get the same problem. the only way it will work for me is if i put the disk in every time! and then it goes onto leopard brand new asking me my information!:@ is there a way this it will just boot off my hard drive? is there something im missing out?

I love Leapord Its Mad Fast With My laptop. Everything works. Sound,Video,Wifi,Trackpad. If u need serials download Serialbox That will have what u whant. I also noticed Bootcamp Is Taken out from iATKOS Install.

As Far As Bootlader When U have Disk In And it asks u to install hit f8 and type -v rd=disk0s1 That should help out if not try reinstalling.

maybe i just cant do what i am trying to do. I have a 500 gb external hd that i am trying to install this onto. I made a 100 gb partition formatted to mac and thats what i want to install it onto. I want to save my xp professional sp3 that i have installed on my internal hd. once i install it onto the external hd, and i try to go and boot it, it brings me right back to the installation screen. Is there something i am doing wrong or am i just screwed???

I dont know lol ive had it work before about 5 times but i have to install it every time!!! :@:@ the only thing that is annoying me is that it will not boot from my HDD!! just from the actual disk ive tryed the method that BIGFDADDY has told me and still no worky:@ if you find out give me a shout please

The way i have it to boot with out disk is having 2 partions. 1 st partion is mac 2nd is vista. Every time i boot up it says push f8 for advanced startup options then i just hit the mac and it runs. without disk being in.

Know when i didnt have the 2 partions and it was jsut mac i always had to use disk. It seems as tho even with the hard drive set to boot with jsut mac the boot loader doesnt recognize mac being their unless u have another operating system installed for it to scan or the dvd in that scans that hard drive and sees that mac is their.

IF U HAVE JUST MAC INSTALLED KEEP DVD IN AFTER INSTALLING AND WHEN IT BOOTS HIT F8 THEN TYPE
-V RD=DISK0S1.

Thanks alot BIGFDADDY ill try it out now ive only just got rid of xp and vista ultimate, starting to bore me lol but if i must put vista back on ill do it ill try the F8 option after this installs agen because ive only just burned another disk. This disk is actually working when the consistency part comes up! unlike the first disk.

After u install mac and boot into it the first time u will have to enter youre information in. As far as the eternal hard drive i have no idea about that since i dont have experience with trying to instlall it.

Hey people,
downloaded and tried the install on my celeron M Compaq laptop, at first it worked, then it didnt.

reinstalled it on my external usb hard drive and get stuck in a loop at the transfer data from my old mac stage. each time I reboot and use the rd=disk1s1 (as this is my external partion) but keep getting stuck at the loop

i have one question…i got it all installed and the boot loader and everything…when i pick to load mac os x86, my computer reboots…it brings me to the gateway screen and then to the select an os screen…did i do something wrong or did i just not do something at all…any ideas anyone???

ok worked out the boot flag on the usb drive was not set, so I can now boot from the external drive. I can even pass the loop stage I previously mentioned but… I have no recognised keyboard… not even a usb keyboard works….

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME…when i load into the mac hd it says darwin boot is loading, and then restarts my computer…any ideas to what i have to do. I coppied the chain0 file into my boot.ini…and i can choose wat os i want to choose from at startup…when i choose the mac os…it loads darwin boot and then acts like it is going to start leopard but it just restarts my computer and goes right back to the os selection screen. i dont know what to do…can some please help??

Well, I got everything set to install leopard following a video tutorial. Unfortunately, when I got to the install screen, I would watch it for awhile, get bored, then come back and conveniently it would restart before I could see if the success screen came up. This happened twice!

But, when I started the installer back up, marked the partition as active, and restarted, my system sat at a blinking “-” sign

i have got an asus p5b-e and a E6320 and i have just tried to install kalyway or watever and it keeps kernel panicing when i first boot it up, i am going to give this a try but can anyone tell me if they have tried this with a similar set up and had no sucsess?

I had Kalyway working perfectly on my Pentium 4 on an ASUS p4p800, a week ago I upgraded my comp to an ASUS p5n-e sli with an E6750 core 2 duo and when I throw the kalyway disk and it takes a while to get to the install screen. When I open the Disk Utility and select my hard (I know I’m stupid, but it’s IDE) the beach ball freak’n spins and doesn’t stop…I can’t format the stupid disk! Anyone have a quick fix or an idea…maybe a BIOS setting?

got another question…i install the file…and when i reboot my comp…it brings up a grey scren of death saying i need to restart my computer…hold down the power button for a few seconds or hit the restart button…anyone kno how to fix this???

hi guys out there
my hardware specs
AMD 4400+
GIGABYTE s-series(ga m61sme-s2)
SEAGATE hdd (40 gigs,250 gigs)
2gb RAM
The iatkos boots perfectly and i am able to reach the disk utility but it doesnt show up my HDD and there is no HDD i can install lovely IATKOS into (it works fine on my buddy”s Intel based PC)
SO help me out guys
THANX GUYS FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR
there shall be no doubt that it works perfectly..but its always a way around..i will keep trying and so should you

Hi! I’ve download the iso and burned it like the guide says, but when I try to install Leopard all I have is the first screen, the one with the apple logo with the spinning sign underneath, but it just keeps on going for hours.
Can anyone help me? What should I do?
I have a Dual Core, DDR2 512, SATA 250 GB and with Tiger running on it.

Hey guys.. I have read the entire page of comments and everyone has been so incredibly helpful, I’m hoping someone can help me out.

Set up:

Dell D620 Laptop
1.66 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
1gb RAM

I can get my disk formatted into OS Extended (Journaled), run Darwin_boot just fine and then start installing. Between 1/2 and then end of the installation, it seems that the installation cuts out and reboots the system going back to the “Install” screen. I’ve attempted booting from HD after this assuming that perhaps the install finished and Automatically rebooted. All I get is a flashing cursor when booting from HD after the install.

After reading through some of the posts it looks like using the following commands may allow me to boot up, but I’m truly not sure. I’m just looking for confirmation.

Would either of these, either through the install DVD or from the cursor on boot allow me to boot up into leopard?

-x-v-f rd=disk0s1
or
-v rd=disk0s1

In addition, is there anything special I should be doing for the dual core processor? Should I be installing the PC-EFI? or not?

That’s it? Just keep moving the mouse while it installs? After it got about halfway again, it rebooted and then when I finally got it to start booting, it won’t get past the set up section: “Do you already own a Mac?”.

I’ll start over and try it with moving the mouse. Is there a certain amount of time I’m able to to wait between moving the mouse and not? Or does it need to be in constant motion?

Hi,
I downloaded the iAtkos torrent from mininova for amd. Tried installin it in Vmware..however it dint work, gave me an error of some missing file.Another thing, whn i load the image in a virtual drive it shows the disc size as only arnd 580Kb..any help??

Leopard fully installed. However, during set up, when I get to the “Do you already own a Mac” section, I click “Don’t transfer anything” and then hit continue. Following this, it hangs for about 60 seconds, then goes back to the first welcome screen. Any ideas?

Hi guys! for anyone trying to install this patch on an HP pavilian DV 1000- 9000 Intel core 2 duo processor, and had any problame loading the disk, then this may not work for you. I know i didn’t for me. But The Toh Patch on Mininova may work better. I was able to install leopard on my HP pavilian dv 6000se intel core 2 duo PC within an hour with no errors what so ever. The only problame is an incompatablity with the Conexant High deff. Audio and the wifi card (everyone knows about that). There is no sound but ev=erything works fine. I have an external wifi card thats mac compatable. my web cam and remote all work perfectly. its twice as large of a file to download so it does take longer.

Sorry but I don’t think that you are going to get the intel card to work, because I haven’t heard of anyone who has one that works. I have a dell closely resembling yours, but I have the dell draft 1500 wireless mini and upon booting up the computer it instantly recognized it while saying it was airport. Well hopefully you find the drivers and good luck. As for me I am looking for a way to update leopard to 10.5.2 without losing all my programs that i already installed. If any one knows how do update please post.

No worries. After researching around, looks like it works for 10.4, but not 10.5. Oh well. Going back to XP for now. It was damn cool to at least be able to boot leopard on a PC. Hopefully a 57xx patched driver or an intel patched driver will come out at some point.

help!! i have the iatkos dvd and it boots up fine but once i get to the on screen instructions it says there is no place to install it? i was thinking it was that my pc that i want to install it on has a linux partition and that leopard wont install on it????

i have just finnished downloading ISO Image and burnt it to a DVD. whenever i pop it into my laptop, and enter ‘ boot-up options > boot from DVD’, nothing happens! It shows a _ for a while, then just starts up windows vista!

also, when i burnt the DVD, it said it was only like 100kb in size, is that correct (as the torrent is 2.09gb)?

please someone help me as i am busting to use mac os x leopard on my laptop instead of windows vista!!!

HELP!!!! For some reason when Darwin starts loading my computer just restarts… i dn’t know why and have tried eerything i know. When i try -v it goes through about 4 or 5 lines and then restarts… can someone help me?

Got the following error message at the point it stops. “Extension “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin” has immediate dependences in both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpl components; use only one style

hello i have a spare computer at home its very old and its not that great any ways here are the specs for it :
Intel[R] Pentium[R] 4 CPU 1500MHz
1.50 GHz, 512 MB of RAM
Which file do i have to install from the [iatkos v1 0ir2.iso] or the
[iatkos v1 0i.iso] file
And second question is can i install it even on Those low specs

Ok, if install doesn’t display any disks you must validate your partition is not formatted as fat32 or ntfs, I used the method first in the list (can’t remember which one it was). Normally the partitions would turn up gray, but when you can install on it, it turns black. Might be an important note to you all…. Am now installing on a Intel Pentium 4; 3,2 ghz; 1gig memory (so no duo core). Install looks kinda stuck… (damnit). Oh well, we’ll see

So, i cannot install this version of the Leopard if i have a P4 3.2 Ghz processor on my machine? if not … which it seems like … are there anyother versions of the Leopard that could be installed on to a P4 machine ??

I have read everything u wrote here and other websites but I still cant find a solution to my problem, witch is: “when I start the installation at the select partition point I don’t have anything to choose from … I start the disk utility and nothing .. theres nothing there to choose”. Please HELP .. I’m desperate.

i was struck with same problem mine was a sata so i tried fixing it by using a patched dvd for sata
it worked for me iam success fully into next step
also make sure your hard disk isnot partitioned and erased by windows
use partition editor from linux cd

Hello folks.
I have installed MacOsX Leopard on my PC successfully, and boots directly from the hard drive whitout any adicional code..
I have a Pentium IV 3.2 Ghz CPU with 2 Gb Kingston 600 Mhz in Ram, an Asus P5GDC de Luxe Motherborad, Maxtor 80 Gb Sata I HD and a Ati Saphire 1650XT Graphic card.
First of all I have created a partition of 15Gb on my hard drive, according to what recomends inihilist in his guide. The hard drive was installed on the second sata master port and the DVDrom Asus Sata 20x on the first sata master port.
I have deactivated the hypertreading.
Leopard recognized almost everything, incluging the network and my kensington bluetooth dongle, except the HD audio integrated.
The only bad thing is that it doesn`t recognize the native resolution of my LCD viewsonic monitor of 1280×1024, offering only 1024×768.
I hope my experience can be usefull.
If anyone knows how to correct the monitor resolution and activate the audio, please tell me.

hi i have installed iatkos v1.0ir2 & encountered the following problems:

1. since onboard ethernet cant work, i installed a pci wifi adaptor which cant work as well
2. i have 3 hdd; 1. sata 80gb samsung [xp] seen in leopard, 2. sata 250gb leopard 3. sata 500gb which isnt seen in leopard
3. must the dvd be in the drive & boot from dvd?

Hi I’ve inserted the burnt DVD into my Toshiba Laptop (Tecra M2) and it says press any key to install Mac OSX, i’ve done so now it just seems to sit at the grey startup screen with the dark grey apple in the middle with the clock timer thing going around, show it sit like this for ever, i’ve left it around 5 mins so far…..is this normal ?

i was struck with same problem mine was a sata so i tried fixing it by using a patched dvd for sata
it worked for me iam success fully into next step
also make sure your hard disk isnot partitioned and erased by windows
use partition editor from linux cd[/quote]

Where can i find a patched dvd for sata ?? ive downloaded iATKOS V.ir2

and where can i find the partition editor from linux cd, i have a linux redhat (os’s booting 6 cds) Downt have to give direct links to your softwares/apps but at least tell me where ill be able to find it..

I have ATI mobility Radeon HD2600 on my Acer Notebook. OSX just freeze without the appropriate driver. I’ve downloaded the correct driver (dmg) but.. how can I modify the iATKOS DVD to include that driver?

I load it into my teac DVD RW and boot from BIOS the iatkos. it’s strat loading for a few minutes and i get the mac interface with the instalation screen. I select disk utility and erase a parion to zero with the mac osx extended format type. After that the partition appears to the instalation screen so i can select it to instal mac os x leopard. i chose to install it with some drivers that i hope to work on my PC, it installs in exactly 10 minutes and then ask me to reboot the computer. I left the DVD into the DVD RW drive but when the computer boot again on screen appear the grey background with a power sign (no a button) and over that a transparent square witch tells me that is strongly recomended to restart my computer by holding for 5 seconds the power button or press the reset button.
And that is all i can get…i get no leopard…and i want it.

Hey there! I followed your procedure, downloaded the ISO file (iATKOS_v1.0ir2) burned it at 1x speed, started from boot however the cursor in the installation acts so weird. It moves after some secs i used the touchpad, and by dissapearing and reapearing in a second spot… i have an Acer Aspire 5600, 100gb hdd (50 with XP and 50 of not allocated space, 1024 mb RAM 1.6 Ghz Processor Interl Core Duo). Have I done something wrong?
Max

When I use the windows using tboot (I found it in a guide, but basically just adds support for more computers) I don’t remember where I got it, but I got mac installed, and no errors came up. My problem is that even using that “-x -v -f rd=disk0s1″ (no quotes) code, I can’t get leopard to boot from disk. I did however get (back to the talk of tboot) the windows bootloader to use tboot to load it, sorts. I get a no hfs+ partition found or something dumb like that. SO I have no access to it at ALL! All of my hardware is supported, but I can’t figure it out.

MUGZ, thanks for the video, but I get no errors messages of any kind. It’s just the cursor acting sooo weird. I mean, I have a laptop, therefore use the touchpad (also because during installation it does’t recognize the external wireless mouse). However, i pass my finger on the touchpad, i wait a few seconds, nothing happens. Then the cursor teleports to another part of the screen, without showing it moving. It’s just one moment it’s in Point A, and the other it’s in Point B. However, all the progress bars work at regular speed, which makes me think it’s not a problem of CPU or RAM… can someone please help me? BTW: I’m using iATKOS_v1.0ir2 downloaded from Mininova and burned at speed 1x

i have just finnished downloading ISO Image and burnt it to a DVD. whenever i pop it into my laptop, and enter ��� boot-up options > boot from DVD���, nothing happens! It shows a _ for a while, then just starts up windows vista!

also, when i burnt the DVD, it said it was only like 100kb in size, is that correct (as the torrent is 2.09gb)?

please someone help me as i am busting to use mac os x leopard on my laptop instead of windows vista!!!

i’m having this problem show up “ERROR: Firewire – unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure” there seems to be something appear after the apple logo comes on and then the computer just stoped, and when i typed in “-v” “ERROR: Firewire – unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure” comes up

well…i guess to many ppl have still dudes about if this work or dont…hahaha pls let me tell you that It works! haha i just instaled in a non-intel core, and is runing….
about the guy hos looking the link to download the iso, well if you look in google can found it, but if you just take some time to download a torrent, (i guess you know how to doit), look in the may places that are in the www for publish torrents, (like mininova or piratebay)
this is a good step by step How to…so its easy cake…
for the ones who have a missing file, i guess its becouse a wrong burn of the disc or a to fast download, so try to download the image in low speed, or if you have a lower one….use that…remember that you are downloadin a lot of files (littleones and big ones) so…try that

I very tankfull with this men….i can connecto to intertet now without any problem of a virus, use mac programs, and of course a good looking pc turn ito a mac XD

ohh thnxs Mihai Neagu, now i understand so i wont be able to run it unless i buy or get a dual core processor, rite?? ohh man i was hopin to try it, i like mac more than wwindows. i hope soon there will be a patch for
single core processors

So, I clicked “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” and I can’t subscribe. And now I get every single one of these comments through my inbox, and I’ve read every single one of them, and deleted them all too.
Here’s my thoughts on it all.
Do your research before posting. I know very little about computers and have managed to install OSX on an external Hard drive and it’s running perfect.
Here’s what I did to install it.
I read. And read. And read some more. And googled, and searched, and researched, and DID NOT ASK STUPID QUESTIONS. If you don’t know how to do something, RESEARCH IT!!! Don’t just post questions. Everyone who has successful installed it is probably not going to respond; they’re going to be too busy playing with OSX or getting their drivers to work.
So, to sum it all up, research before you post questions. And if you can’t figure it out after researching, I suggest you give up trying and go back to OSX.
Good luck and thanks to those who have made this available for us in such an easy to use package!

PS> There’s a reason no one lists the sites where you can find the torrents… we don’t want those sites getting shut down, so we don’t name them or link to them. Googling will do wonders…

For people having problems after installing with their hardwares, you guys have to to an important thing while installing. When u select ur drive to install and click next make sure to click on the CUSTOMIZE option and select all that is available there. This would fix most of ur hardware problems.

BIGBOY, i’ve tried to install iatkos v1.0i on my single core processor and it’s boots from dvd, i install darwin boot with success and then i install leopard on the HDD with no other things on it. After installing (abbout 10 minutes) it requiers restart so i restart the PC and then it says that a system file called “apple.boot.plist” something like that is missing.

WHATSUP said that is may be a broken dvd burned but the installer checked the dvd before installing leopard so the dvd is ok.
The part with the lower speed to download or to burn is not ok because checksum is being done after download or burn and the size is compared and if it is ok…is ok…at any speed…bit with bit.

probably i must have done a mistake or forgot to make somthing before install leopard because someone said that i should have an MBR partition or somthing like this on my HDD but i can’t find that in the information fields.i’ve formatted all the HDD and maked just 1 partition but it doesn’t works. maybe is not ok with the drivers i’ve installed or with my P4 3.0GHz processor because it is not dualcore.

I am waiting for someone to help me to install leopard on my pc if they want that because i can’t manage alone.
they’ve made leopard for PC…help us to install it…specially the developpers.

wow – i just think i realized why all these people are having such problems……it wont install on SATA drives thats why it reboots when you start it. when i booted from my external usb dvd rom it booted perfectly and when i went into disk utility it didnt show anything at all……just the dvd. damn

Im new to this, i’ve done all the research. I have a Toshiba Intel Centrino 1.7ghz single core, 1.5gb Ram Laptop/Tablet PC, running XP, fed up with how slow it is, so i thought i’d sell and buy a mac, but not necessarily an affordable option.

So i thought i’ll get linux operating system based option, should speed up things, done my research, but having nver used it before and worried whether i’ll be able to Office 2007, & Adobe CS2, realised that these two program i may not be able to use on Linux software, especially since im new to this tyep of operating system.

So? thought it be great to have Leopard, came to this site, and need to know a few things:

1. Is this download file iATKOS, the complete Leopard operating system, or do i have to get this seperately?

2. PC-EFI, what are the instructions for this as i have a Non Core Processor? What is it and how will affect installation, and how do i install considering my spec?

3. Do i have format the hard drive and remove XP completely, which i would prefer to do? Or does it actually install on the XP OS?

4. Do i need to partition the hard drive, before installing, which drive i do install, it on? How to partition the drive if already formatted? i.e. after XP removed? or this part of process whilst installing?

I’d be grateful for your help, this is you can say is my research.. googling all these questions brings me back to this site.. hence..

Hello everyone! I’ve downloaded the iATKOS v1.0ir2.iso file and installed it successfully (at least its what it seems)..allthoug, it has no drivers for my graphic card (asus ati x550 [yes.. it sucks.. I know]).. after the installation, it starts to run mac os x, (appears the apple icon on a silver screen [loading mac os x]), but it stucks.. keeps on loading, and loading, and loading, and after a while, the screen turns black (the light from the monitor starts blinking) and never opens the OS.. is this a conflict with the graphic card drivers? can please anyone help me? I’d be very thankfull!

PS:

Sorry about the english.. if there’s anything you don’t understand, warn me and i’ll trie to explain it in a better way!

I cannot get my computer to boot to the Patched Dvd i burned or the legal copy of Leopard; it just says boot to Cd, but doesnt go beyond that where i can click enter to boot to cd. I have it setup in my bios to only boot to CD and i have taken out my harddrive and replaced it with a unpartitioned one and one that is partitions with FAT32. Is it one of my computer parts thats causing it (the link http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.1 doesnt work)

Thanks Mihai Neagu, for your help. Um if u find a way of fixing it or someone helps you can u please reply to me. And also will i be able to install vista if the mac os x leopard installation isnt Successful?? thnx for da help guys i o u!!

I keep getting the error ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ i have re downloaded the iso and even downloaded a different one, and i have used 3 different iso burners, all to no avail. I see other people are having this same error so if anyone can figure it out, it would be appreciated.

1) Why do only some USB Connections work on my PC. My mouse is connected through USB, and works.. but my iTouch (Built By Apple, so it SHOULD work), doesnt even detect power going in to charge it.

Is their a fix?

2) What version of OS X does this install? Simple question for anyone that has installed this. I installed the JAS version (after failing this one), and its version 10.4.8. Is their a way to update without crashing?

hi im having a problem.. i downloaded the torrent successfully, burnt it to a DVD-RW…. then i booted from the dvd i ran the darwin x86… a white screen with an apple came up and the little swirly loader spins below it… it loaded for about 2 minutes you can hear the disk spinning and the light blinks this whole time… then it goes to a dark blue to light blue gradient screen… this is when the disk stops spinning and the computer completely freezes… am i doing something wrong i scanned over your instructions and you specifically say use a DVD-R this is the only thing i could find that i didnt exactly follow i dont think it makes a difference tho i just thought id point it out…

yeah, Mihai Neagu i kinda have the same problem when i try to boot it up with VMPlayer. before it goes to the apple logo, it says missing boot.apple or somefin like that, well the only way to check is to actually do it. anyways bout dat video im gonna try to find the uploader of that video or at least find a tutorial on google on how to install it. If u can Mihai Neagu and every1 can u please search google for Mac OSX Leopard on P4 processor and give me feed back i would really apriciate it. thnx again!

I’m stuck at the apple loading screen, same as boc4s. I burned the file to a DVD, and have looked on Google for a possible reason as to why it is stuck at that screen, while the “loading” icon below the Apple emblem continues to spin. I left it for about an hour, only to return to a still spinning “loading” icon.

If anyone has any idea as to why it is doing this, help would be much appreciated.

Hi I tried installing MAC X OC Leopard on my intel laptop but i was not sure so I went to the install n then canceled it now it messed up badly
i get this error when I start up my laptop
———————————————————————-
Braodcam UNDI PXE-2.1 v10.0.8
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Broadcam Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
All Rights Reserved
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcam PXE ROM.
———————————————————————-
it just keeps doing that please help ASAP
i need to save my work on C: drive and yet needs it to be fixed :S?
already tried fixing MBR frm windows Xp pro cd ..
email me if anyone have some options for me and a solution?

I have the problem with a missing file like a system file apple.boot.plist is missing.
so is not the boot order…
i read somthing to keep the disc in the drive everytime you boot osx…is ok for me…but firstly boot the osx and then all will be okay.

so teach me what to do in case of a pentium 4 3.0 GHz, video GForce FX 5900xt and 1gb RAM with a sATA drive of 80 GB.

Well i actually put mi cd in and it actually booted up with mi P4 with no problems, the apple boot screen came up for a while then the installation came up.
i had the same problem MIHAI NEAGU when i booted the leopard dvd in VMPlayer but it worked fine for me when i booted it up with mi actuall computer. I also did a search for that error message and many people had the same problem even with Kalyway. soo im still doin some research.
P.S sorry for the long reply!

i have intel pc with:
4gb ram
8600 invidia geforce GT
p(4) D cpu 3.00GHz
can i install leopard in it
plz answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anb by the way i have iATKOS_v1.0i.iso did`nt work!
so what the problem.

HI DABHAND
nice to hear that i was always looked for this
i even tried something like zephyryth its getting a kernel panick on first boot after first install …what you say is iatkos or what? need some help dude iam really pleased with amd but things are not straight for me so help me out
thanx
it would be nice if you posted your config mine is
my hardware specs
AMD 4400+
GIGABYTE s-series(ga m61sme-s2)
SEAGATE hdd (40 gigs,250 gigs)
2gb RAM

HI DABHAND
nice to hear that i have always looked for this
i even tried something like zephyryth its getting a kernel panick on first boot after first install ���what you say is iatkos or what? need some help dude iam really pleased with amd but things are not straight for me so help me out
thanx
it would be nice if you posted your config mine is
my hardware specs
AMD 4400+
GIGABYTE s-series(ga m61sme-s2)
SEAGATE hdd (40 gigs,250 gigs)
2gb RAM

Heyy once again sorry for not answerin lately, cuz i live in australia, anyways yeah if u have your bios set to boot of a cd first then XP Setup will boot up, and the installation should begin, (HOPEFULLY)

I’ve partitioned the C drive but when I’m up to the restart, OSX does not load. It comes to the boot screen and asks me to select iATKOSv1.0 and then tries to reinstall again. How can I bring it up so it boots directly to OSX? Do I need to use a program to configure my partitions again?

I’d be -very- interested in hearing how your system is coming along and how everything works. Right now I’m shopping for a new PC, and if I could build one that would run OSX that would be fantastic. I’m interested in all the details you have to share, specifically the BIOS tweaks!

I am having that keyboard problem that a few people are talking about, where when you hit a key and it types nothing. No beep, just nothing for me.

The interesting thing, is the keyboard did work with iATKOS before installation (when I was in darwin boot and such), but ever since the installation finished and restarted.. nothing on the iATKOS disk is taking imput.

I am having that keyboard problem that a few people are talking about, where when you hit a key and it types nothing. No beep, just nothing for me.

The interesting thing, is the keyboard did work with iATKOS before installation (when I was in darwin boot and such), but ever since the installation finished and restarted.. nothing on the iATKOS disk is taking input.

If u follow those steps and actually check the boxes he has checked..u will get this working 100%s

Things u will need:
the r3 patched iatkos iso. burn it at 2.4x, pop it in, boot from CD (bios setup) then press F8 before counter reaches zero, type -v let it go. then follow the steps on the link ive mentioned.

if u wanna know what USB WLAN card im usin, contact me. im going to bed. tomorrow I will be doing the 10.5.2 patch along with my graphic card update (8800gt) hopefully it all works. I think my sound is compatible, since i have a azalia chipset sound card.

thanks all of u for posting, ive read all ur posts and its helped me out a lot! <3

I have burned at slowest speed possible…i put the disk in and it get the the gray screen with the apple on it for a split second and then reboots. My computer is a Gateway ML3109 with the following specs:

ok I finally got mine working. I put in an extra hard drive to install leopard on it so it didnt interfere with Windows XP. For those of you having the same problem, I suggest you go back to the torrent site and download the most recent update of iATKOS. Burn it at slow speeds to a dvd (i did mine at 2x). Then follow the instructions here:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87901

They are a lot more straight forward and he even provides pictures. Good luck.

I got a wierd problem. i have installed Kalaway 10.5.1 on my pc, and when i came to the welcome screen, the mouse and keyboard lags (freezes every second, sorry for my bad english) but when i installed the kalaway the mouse and keyboard workt just fine. what can it be?

I am totally blind. Have you all tested this to see if once booted to the CD you can hit Apple+F5 and bring up voice over to get you through the installer? Otherwise blindies like myself are gonna have no succfess with this at all. I’m certainly going to give it a try. If you all wanna e-mail me about this, my address is: chrisgilland@carolina.rr.com

The file won’t freakin’ download, there doesn’t appear to be an error, it’s just inactive, freakin’ sitting there not doing a damn thing. Did anyone else have this problem? I’m using uTorrent. Hopefully it might pick up later, I don’t have high hopes.

HEY EVERYONE! I HAVE GOT IT TO WORK ON 20 PC’S(BEEN INSTALLING FOR ALL OF MY BUDS) THE BIGGEST MISTAKES EVERYONE IS MAKING IS INSTALLING DRIVERS U DONT NEED.. IF U DO SO IT WILL NOT INSTALL FOR U AT ALL. SO KNOWING WHAT IS IN OR PC B4 U INSTALL WILL HELP YA!! BUT THIS THING WORKS GREAT!!
PS.

ANYONE HAVING INTERNET CONNECTION ISSUES WITH INTELL NIC CARD? THIS IS MY ONLY ISSUE..

I successfully installed Leopard on my Dell E310 (or 3100 series) last night. It took me about 6 tries to choose the right options, but it’s working and it’s awesome! I chose the Darwin EFI Bootloader and both the “Drivers” and “Displays” options, but did not check the “System” box. That’s what worked for me, can’t guarantee the same results for you! Happy Appleing!

Hi, I start up the disc, press F8, then type -v. But then a screen with a long long load of white text comes up and just sits there for a while. It starts with “npvhash=4095″ then it says crap like enabling INTEL features” etcetera, then the bottom paragraph says “MAC framework successfully initialized” etcetera, the cursor doesn’t blink, it just stays white, and this screen just stays up, nothing happens. Can anybody help me out here please?

I tried to install last evening, but this morning I had the same (grey apple) screen. I dont know what to do, I cannot see what is happening and where it stops working. Solutions?

I see allot of people complaining about the downloads, but my speed was between 800Kb/s and 1,7 Mb/s. So for the people who are downloading slow, check your ports. There are seeders enough! No complain here…

hi all leo lovers,
installed kalyway 10.5.1 on my asus P5W DH Deluxe, Quad core Q6600,Evga 8800 GT 512. mb.
works like magic, infact i updated to 10.5.2 . i have 2 copies 1– at Sata 0 and the other at eSata on Jmicron. i can boot any of the 2, so now i have a triple boot with Xp, vista, and OS X. everything works perfect. if any guys need any help on this particular motherboard. please email mejatkhaira@sbcglobal.net

Hello,
first I am very surprised finding an application, that supports mac os x leopard on a PC…
But I also have some questions:
1) Which technical requirements (CPU, Graphics card, working memory,…) do I need to run this mac os x version?
2) Is this mac os x version the full one, or what is modified in according to the original one?
3) Is is possible to use windows vista AND that mac os x version at one computer? Or are you only able to use one operating system like vista OR mac os x

Best regards
Peter B.

PS: I will like it very much, if you send your answers not only to this forum but also to my e-mail address… Thanks a lot.

I need help. I don’t know if I didn’t burn the disc correctly or not. When I try to boot it, it just doesn’t boot. I popped my xp disc in my cd-rom drive and it boots, but not in my dvd drive. I already fucked around in bios and couldn’t get anything to work. Also I used a dvd+r instead of a dvd-r will that make any difference? I have a dell dimension 4600.

I’ve installed iATKOS v1.0i more than 4 times and followed the exact steps on this and the ‘Dual Boot…’ but once the pc restarts after the installation is complete, it stops at the post screen and doesn’t load to Mac OS. tried the F8 -> -s -> fdisk -e … but no luck. FYI, I tried this on a fresh hard drive without any OS.

Install options: using SSE2/SSE3, no EFI (at drivers section).
Everything worked fine until reboot. After reboot, no system at all. I used a linux boot to see the boot flag on the partition. It was there. Last try: remove boot flag and added it again.
Worked like a charm!

First run, i had to reboot 3 times because it got stuck in the Apple register. After de 4th try, i got it.

Hi all…
I downloaded iATKOS v1.0ir2.iso.
I double clicked on the file so it opened in Nero and asked for burning to disk.
I placed a DVD+RW(and 2nd time a DVD+R).
I checked (finalize disk)
Verified written data.
Everything is fine.

but when i keep dvd in drive, and boot with DVD drive, it says “OS not found”.

hi!!! my pc is P3.. am i gonna be able to install it? am i getting you correct? no partitions necessary right? after burning it to a disk il boot on it right? so how am i gonna be able to install lepard there? would it be asking for the leopard this during the process? pls hit me back buddy..

I am seem to be having the same problem as ZEE. I have tried installing it multiple times and at the reboot it wont load into OS X. At the beginning of the installation of OS X right before the actual installation starts u can go to “Customize” theres patches drivers and a bootloader that u can check. #1 what drivers does it install and i didnt even mess with the patches, bad experiences, but what will the bootloader do? I am running a dell 1450 pentium 4 2.0GHz 1.5gb ram and a new drive. help please? thank you very much.

ps: i am a HUUUUUUUUUGE mac fan. this is temporary for me for im saving up to get a real computer a mac but it will be awhile. and i really want this to work for me, i have been without my beloved iPhone for about a week now and im almost walking into walls im just lost without it.

i have the same problem it wont load into OS X, but when I restart the PC and choose the Boot Device(DVD Room), where it says click enter to install or F8…. I dont press anything and after 10 second loads the OS, and it works fine, but i have to do that all the times , can anyone tell me how to fix this problem

ehhh.
i just bought a new harddrive for my dell, and it has nothing on it, completely blank, and all mac does is ‘still waiting for root device’. Do i have to get the computer to recognize the hard drive first?

i have a mac osx leopard original cd i got from apple its the real deal how can i do it with the original cd …do i copy the disc as a dvd and convert it to an iso image as well or what please help would much appreciate your assistance !!!

I my friend has the actual leopard and tiger operating system disks and i was wondering
1. if i could dual boot with the real cd
2. if my cpu is compatible with the system
3. if i can install final cut pro and run it without problems.
4. if it would be better(safer) to dual boot with tiger because more of the hacks for the drivers are out there

Hey will someone help me out plz.
after booting from the dvd I am not able to select any hard dsk.partition Practically it shows no disk partition. Even using the disk utility does not show any hard drive partition….

Hey, i want to install thi s on my Pentium D core duo with 2GB DDR2 , but i’m not sure what i have to do. So, all i have to do is download iATKOS v1.0 and put it on a bootable dvd and it will install ?? please respond me as quickly as possible ( Sory for my bad english )

I finally download iATKOS v1.0i and I’d successfully installed, however I only can get into the Leopard with my DVD in.. I wonder if there’s a way to boot up without it… in any case I would like to install v2.0 since I don’t have sound and internet with this current version
:-S

After following all the steps nothing appeared on the monitor and F8 key did not show the lists of partitions, I have an HP dv6500 with a nvidia 8400 GS and the image was iatkos v1 0i.zip. Can you help? there will be more a way to install the Leopard on the PC?

You guys do know that when you do this, it is illegal. Whomever made this iso, is violating the EULA from apple, and the EULA of Leopard says that you can’t install this on a machine that isn’t made by apple, so you guys do know, that apple may come out with an update that makes your awesome installation, not so awesome anymore, so, consider yourselves warned.

hey , so i read all this, i know alot of ppl have said this. i got a amd, two processors, i d/l the r2 file forgetin i now got a amd laptop. but i’l give it a go on the intel tomorow, but yeh wondering if theres a amd version or anything.

so yeh if u guys got time, send an email to me to let me know. im wiling to d/l n seed n al lthat, but yeh 2 gigs down the drain. not to mention uploads. (telstra) realy wana get the mac up n runing, ta

astro. n yeh i read like half theposts… got tired so im just writing up a comment on HELP! =d

@WMonotone , yeah it is possible, but i see some comments that, they dont have hard drive detected, and someone wrote that you got to change NTFS to OS, maybe thats the problem, i made one partition only for this OS and i have 50% down allready ill report how its done when i go trough the instalation

Successful install of iATKOS_2.0i
1. Download iATKOS_2.0i.iso and burn to dvd. I got mine on usenet.
2. Boot to dvd, install will autmatically start
3. For all of you that have no drives listed, click on the utilities menu item and go format (erase) the drive you want to use. When you close the utility, your drive should be visible.